Employment Act 1968 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Contractors and Contracting
66. Registration of contractors and subcontractors
Feedback & supportThe Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, require all contractors and subcontractors to be registered with the Commissioner and thereafter a person must not act as a contractor or a subcontractor unless the person is so registered.
contractor
“contractor” means any person who contracts with a principal to supply labour or to carry out the whole or any part of any work undertaken by the principal in the course of or for the purposes of the principal’s trade or business;
Every application for such registration must be in the prescribed form.
Every person so registered under this section as a contractor or subcontractor is deemed to be the employer of the workmen employed by that person.
subcontractor
“subcontractor” means any person who contracts with a contractor for the supply of labour or for the execution by the subcontractor of the whole or any part of any work undertaken by the contractor for the contractor’s principal, and includes any person who contracts with a subcontractor to supply labour or to carry out the whole or any part of any work undertaken by the subcontractor for a contractor;
Every contractor or subcontractor who has been so registered and who changes the name under which that contractor or subcontractor carries on business must within 7 days of the change of name apply in writing to the Commissioner for re‑registration and cancellation of the previous registration.
The Commissioner may effect the registration of any person under this section and may cancel any such registration.
The Minister may make regulations to prescribe the requirements and conditions for registration of a contractor or subcontractor under this section.
Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence.