Singapore legislation

Clause 31

Administrative penalty for civil contraventions

(1)

If it appears to an authorised officer that an employer has committed a civil contravention, the authorised officer may issue a contravention notice to the employer requiring the employer to pay an administrative penalty of the prescribed amount as follows:

(a)

for a civil contravention under section 29(a) — each act of discrimination against an individual;

(b)

for a civil contravention under section 29(b) — each discriminatory direction, instruction or policy issued, communicated or published;

(c)

for a civil contravention under section 29(c) — each publication of a discriminatory advertisement;

(d)

for a civil contravention under section 29(d) — each application for a work pass in contravention of section 26(1);

(e)

for a civil contravention under section 29(e) — the failure to develop the process mentioned in section 27(1);

(f)

for a civil contravention under section 29(f) — the failure to inform all its employees of the process mentioned in section 27(1), in contravention of section 27(2);

(g)

for a civil contravention under section 29(g) — each occasion of retaliation;

(h)

for a civil contravention under section 29(h) — each contravention of any provision of any regulations made under section 44 that the Minister has prescribed as a contravention to which section 29 applies;

(i)

for a civil contravention under section 29(i) — each occasion of provision of inaccurate information or particulars to the Commissioner, an authorised officer or an authorised person under this Act, inadvertently or without intent to mislead or defraud.

(2)

A contravention notice must —

(a)

specify the amount of administrative penalty to be paid;

(b)

specify the date by which the administrative penalty must be paid; and

(c)

set out the brief details of the contravention and any other particulars that may be prescribed.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (1), different amounts of administrative penalty may be prescribed for different civil contraventions or different circumstances in which a civil contravention takes place.

(4)

Subject to section 32, any employer who is issued a contravention notice under subsection (1) must pay the administrative penalty specified in the notice to the authorised officer within the time, in any mode of payment and at any place that is specified in that notice.

(5)

Any administrative penalty collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

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