Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Licensing of Foreign Employee Dormitory Operators
9. Grant of licence, etc.
Feedback & supportAfter considering any application for a licence, including the results of any investigation and inquiry under section 8(3), the Commissioner may —
licence
“licence” means a licence granted under section 9(1)(a) authorising a person to operate the boarding premises specified in the licence as a foreign employee dormitory;
on payment of a licence fee (if prescribed), grant the licence; or
refuse to grant the licence.
In determining whether an applicant should be granted a licence under subsection (1), the Commissioner is to have regard to, and give such weight as the Commissioner considers appropriate to, all of the following matters:
Commissioner
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Foreign Employee Dormitories appointed under section 6(1), and includes any Deputy Commissioner for Foreign Employee Dormitories or Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Employee Dormitories delegated under section 6(5) to exercise the Commissioner’s powers or duties under this Act;
whether the applicant is a suitable person to be involved in the management or operation of a foreign employee dormitory and, where necessary, whether the members of the board of directors or committee or board of trustees or other governing body of an applicant which is a body corporate, are also similarly suitable;
whether the applicant does not have (or is unlikely to have) the financial capacity to operate the boarding premises as a foreign employee dormitory;
whether the boarding premises are fit to be used as a foreign employee dormitory for reasons connected with the site, construction, accommodation, staffing or equipment, and with building safety, fire safety and public health and sanitation requirements prescribed by or under this Act or any other written law;
whether the applicant, any associate of the applicant, or where the applicant is a body corporate, any member of the board of directors or committee or board of trustees or other governing body of the body corporate —
is disqualified by section 16 or the regulations under section 34 from holding a licence; or
has been convicted of an offence under this Act;
whether it is otherwise contrary to the public interest for the licence to be granted to the applicant.
To avoid doubt, the Commissioner is not confined to consideration of the matters specified in subsection (2) and may take into account such other matters and evidence as may be relevant.
For the purposes of subsection (2)(d), a person is an associate of another if the person has a relationship with the other in a manner prescribed.