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Environmental Public Health Act 1987 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9A · General Cleaning Industry

80D. Carrying on cleaning business without cleaning business licence prohibited

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2014.

(1)

A person must not carry on a cleaning business in Singapore, except under and in accordance with a cleaning business licence that is in force.

(2)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

(3)

In this section, a person is presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be carrying on a cleaning business if the person, directly or indirectly, charges or receives any fee or reward for providing cleaning work to other persons, or undertakes for a fee or reward to provide cleaning work to other persons, as follows:

(a)

by contract of service, the person employs 2 or more individuals as cleaners to perform the cleaning work;

(b)

the person, having —

(i)

to achieve a stated result or outcome; and

(ii)

to supply all or substantially all of the plant or equipment or the tools of trade needed to perform the cleaning work,by contract (whether or not a contract of service) engages 2 or more individuals to perform the cleaning work; or

(c)

being a principal contractor, the person engages by contract (other than a contract of service) any person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) to provide cleaning work to other persons.

Terms defined in this Act

cleaning business
Defined · s 2
“cleaning business” means a business, whether or not the business is carried on for profit, in which a person provides cleaning work to other persons through the services of cleaners engaged or employed by that person;
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cleaning business licence
Defined · s 2
“cleaning business licence” means a licence granted under section 80G(1);
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cleaning work
Defined · s 2
“cleaning work” means work carried out in Singapore that has, as its main or only component, the bringing of premises or any public place into, or keeping of premises or any public place in, a clean condition, and includes supervising the carrying out of that work but excludes any work that the Minister declares, by notification in the Gazette, not to be cleaning work;
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provide
Defined · s 78
“provide”, in relation to water suitable for drinking, means to convey, distribute, produce, supply, offer to provide or otherwise make available, in the course of business and whether or not carried on for profit, the water —(a)to the public, or a section of the public, at a public place, any common area of any residential premises, or any other place, premises or area; and(b)by using any reticulation system, storage tank, container, hose, water fitting, generator, tanker, truck or any other system, facility, equipment or vehicle,but does not include —(c)any sale of water suitable for drinking that is regulated under the Sale of Food Act 1973;(d)any supply to a vessel of water suitable for drinking that is regulated under the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996;(e)any provision to a Singapore ship of water suitable for drinking that is regulated under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;(f)any provision of water suitable for drinking solely to the Public Utilities Board; and(g)any other provision of water prescribed by the Minister charged with the responsibility for food safety by order in the Gazette, as not being the provision of water suitable for drinking;
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