Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Work Passes
10. Self-employed foreigners to apply for work passes
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A foreigner must not be a self‑employed foreigner unless he or she has a valid work pass.
foreigner
“foreigner” means any person who is not a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore;
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall —
be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both; and
on a second or subsequent conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term of not less than one month and not more than 2 years and also be liable to a fine not exceeding $20,000.
For the purposes of this section —
to avoid doubt, where a person has been convicted of an offence under subsection (2), and the person has on a previous occasion been convicted for contravening section 10(1) of the Employment of Foreign Workers Act (Cap. 91A, 1997 Revised Edition) in force immediately before 1 July 2007 or section 10(1) of this Act in force immediately before 9 November 2012, the firstmentioned conviction shall be considered a second or subsequent conviction under subsection (2); and
all convictions against the same person for the contravention of subsection (1) at one and the same trial shall be deemed to be one conviction.