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Regulation 17

of Employment of Foreign Manpower (Levy) Order 2011

Regulation 17

Change in household composition resulting in employer being subject to levy under paragraph 16(1)(b)

Amended byS 196/2019 wef 01/04/2019S 579/2019 wef 01/09/2019S 579/2019 wef 01/09/2019

Subregulation 1

This paragraph shall apply where an employer of a domestic worker who originally qualified for the levy specified in paragraph 16(1)(a) in respect of that domestic worker, ceases to so qualify.

Subregulation 2

Amended byS 196/2019 wef 01/04/2019S 579/2019 wef 01/09/2019

Unless the Controller otherwise allows, where an employer of a domestic worker ceases to qualify for the levy specified in paragraph 16(1)(a) as a result of any of the conditions referred to in paragraph 16(2)(a) to (g) no longer being satisfied (including through the death of a person referred to in paragraph 16(2)), the levy specified in paragraph 16(1)(b) applies in respect of that domestic worker starting on the date that any of the conditions are no longer satisfied.

Subregulation 3

Amended byS 579/2019 wef 01/09/2019

Where an employer of a domestic worker ceases to qualify for the levy specified in paragraph 16(1)(a) because his spouse, his child or the child of his spouse, or his parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandparent-in-law, grandchild, sibling or sibling-in-law, or an individual mentioned in paragraph 16(2)(g)(i)(A), (B) or (C), ceases to reside at the registered residential address of the employer (as defined in paragraph 16), the employer shall notify the Controller of that fact within 28 days of the person ceasing to so reside.