Singapore legislation
Section 76
Section 76
Board may engage in activities not directly related to Fund and may call for information
(1)
The Board may, if the Minister is satisfied that it is in the public interest for the Board to do so, engage in either or both of the following:
activities that are not related to, or that are not directly related to, the Fund or the administration of the Fund;
the compilation of information of a statistical nature or otherwise relating to members, employers and employees.
(2)
For the purpose of subsection (1), the Board may require members, employers and employees to furnish such particulars as may be necessary.
(3)
Despite the provisions of any written law but subject to any rules made under subsection (4), where a fund for the educational, social or economic advancement of any community has been approved by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection, an employer must deduct from the monthly wages of an employee who belongs to that community such amount of contributions as may be prescribed and pay such contributions into the fund unless an employee notifies his or her employer in writing that he or she does not wish to contribute to the fund.
(4)
The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make such rules as are necessary or expedient for carrying out the provisions of subsection (3) relating to the fund referred to in that subsection and, in particular, such rules may —
provide for different amounts of contributions to be made by different categories of employees;
provide for the manner and time of payment and collection of contributions to the fund and any matters incidental thereto;
provide for the return of any contributions paid in error or for the payment of any contributions omitted to be paid;
provide for the keeping of books, accounts or records by employers;
provide, in cases where an employee is employed concurrently by 2 or more employers, for the extent of the obligation of such employers as to payment of contributions to the fund; and
provide that an employer who fails to deduct any contributions from an employee’s monthly wages or fails to pay such deductions into the fund within the prescribed time shall be guilty of an offence.