Regulation 10

No employment agency personnel shall cause, induce or assist a foreign employee to enter Singapore for the purpose of seeking employment unless the employer has obtained in respect of that foreign employee the approval in principle of the Controller of Work Passes.

A licensee or an employment agency personnel shall, upon obtaining employment for a foreign employee, ensure that the passport or other documents of identity of the foreign employee is delivered or returned directly to that foreign employee as soon as practicable, unless the licensee or employment agency personnel has a reasonable excuse not to do so.

For the purposes of paragraph (2), the licensee or employment agency personnel shall not be taken to have a reasonable excuse for failing to deliver or return the passport or other documents of identity of a foreign employee if that failure is by reason only of the licensee or employment agency personnel not being in possession of the passport or other documents of identity due to the licensee or employment agency personnel having transferred or otherwise given possession of the passport or other documents of identity, as the case may be, to another licensee, employment agency personnel or employment agency, whether located in Singapore or elsewhere.