Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Work Passes
13. Custody of work pass, etc.
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A work pass holder must not allow any other person to have possession of his or her work pass.
work pass
“work pass” means a work pass belonging to any prescribed category of work passes which is issued by the Controller under section 7.
If required by the Controller, a foreign employee must hand over the work pass to his or her employer on the last day of his or her employment with that employer.
Controller
“Controller” means the Controller of Work Passes appointed under section 3;
An employer who is handed a work pass under subsection (2) must return the work pass to the Controller within 7 days of the date the employer receives the work pass.
employer
“employer” means any person employing a foreign employee, and includes —(a)for the purposes of an application for a work pass — any person who has the intention or purports to have the intention to employ a foreign employee; or(b)in a case where a foreign employee has or had a valid work pass — any person specified in the work pass as the employer of the foreign employee;
Upon demand by an authorised officer or employment inspector, a work pass holder must produce his or her work pass for inspection.