Section 11
Effect of suspension or revocation of licence
of Employment Agencies Act 1958
(1)
Where an order of suspension becomes effective under section 10, the licensee concerned may continue to carry on the employment agency or perform any work or activity mentioned in section 6(2) (as the case may be), except that the licensee must not enter into new recruitment or placement agreements.
(2)
Where an order of revocation becomes effective under section 10, the licensee concerned must immediately cease to carry on the employment agency or perform all work or activity mentioned in section 6(2), as the case may be.
(3)
Subject to any directions which the Commissioner may give under subsection (4), subsections (1) and (2) do not prejudice the enforcement by any person of any right or claim against the licensee concerned or by the licensee concerned of any right or claim against any person arising out of or concerning any matter or thing done prior to the suspension or revocation of the licence.
(4)
Where an order of suspension or revocation is served on a licensee or where such order becomes effective under section 10, despite any rule of law or agreement to the contrary or any other provision in this section, the licensee concerned must comply with any directions that the Commissioner thinks fit to give which directions may include, but are not limited to, all or any of the following:
to inform, in writing, every applicant for employment and every applicant for workers who uses any service of the licensee of the fact that the licensee has been given the order;
not to collect any deposit or fee from any applicant mentioned in paragraph (a) or any class thereof;
to refund any applicant mentioned in paragraph (a) or any class thereof, within the time specified in the direction, the whole or such part of any deposit or fee received from the applicant as the Commissioner deems equitable;
to make arrangements so that any applicant mentioned in paragraph (a) or any class thereof will continue to receive the services to be provided by the licensee from another licensee and to notify the applicant or class of applicants (as the case may be) accordingly;
not to make any application to the Controller of Work Passes appointed under section 3 of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990;
to return the passports or other documents of identity in the possession of the licensee to the persons to whom they belong.
(5)
Any person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes subsection (1) or (2), or any direction given by the Commissioner under subsection (4), shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —
to a fine not exceeding $80,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both; and
in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $160,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 4 years or to both.[12