13. Loss of work permit
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When a work permit has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the employee or contract worker to whom the work permit was issued shall, within 14 days of such loss, destruction or defacement, report the same to the Commissioner and shall apply for a duplicate work permit.
A duplicate work permit may be issued by the Commissioner in place of a work permit which has been lost, destroyed or defaced upon payment of the prescribed fee.
Commissioner
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Employment referred to in section 3;
Where any employee or contract worker, after notifying the loss of his work permit, recovers possession of the work permit, he shall forthwith notify the Commissioner of the recovery and may retain the work permit provided that no duplicate work permit has been issued by the Commissioner under subsection (2).
Where any employee or contract worker recovers possession of his work permit after he has been issued with a duplicate work permit under subsection (2), he shall forthwith return the work permit so recovered for cancellation.
employee
“employee” means any person who seeks employment with, or is offered employment by, or is employed by, an employer at a salary of not more than $1,500* a month or such other sum as may, from time to time, be fixed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette, and includes any person who is already employed by an employer on 1st February 1966;
Any person who finds or comes into possession of a work permit other than his own shall forthwith deliver it to the Commissioner.[11