Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Offences
23. Abetment of offences
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Any person who abets the commission of an offence under this Act shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable on conviction to be punished with the punishment provided for that offence.
Where an occupier is charged for abetting another person who has employed a foreign employee in contravention of section 5(1), it shall not be sufficient for the occupier to prove in the occupier’s defence that the occupier had instructed the other person not to, or obtained from the other person an undertaking that the other person would not, so employ a foreign employee.
occupier
“occupier”, in relation to any premises, includes —(a)the person having the charge, management or control of either the whole or part of the premises either on the person’s own account or as an agent; and(b)any person who is carrying out construction or other works at the premises on behalf of some other person;