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Singapore legislation

Regulation 3

of Professional Engineers Rules 1991

Regulation 3

Application for registration as professional engineer

Subregulation 1

An application to the Board for registration as a professional engineer under the Act must be made —

(a)

in the form set out in the electronic application system of the Board at https://app.peb.gov.sg or at any other online location that may be notified from time to time, in any manner that the Board may direct; and

(b)

where —

(i)

the applicant has passed the oral examination mentioned in rule 4A(1)(b) — within 5 years after the date the applicant passed the examination; or

(ii)

the applicant has passed the Practice of Professional Engineering Examination mentioned in rule 4A(1)(a)(ii) —

(A)

on any date between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2019 (both dates inclusive) — within 7 years after the date the applicant passed the examination; or

(B)

on any other date — within 5 years after the date the applicant passed the examination.

Subregulation 2

For the purposes of section 21(1)(a) of the Act, the condition is that where a person’s application (called in this rule the first application) for registration as a professional engineer under the Act has been refused by the Board, that person must not make another application for registration as a professional engineer unless a period of 12 months has elapsed after the date of the first application.