Regulation of Employment (Amendment) Bill

This Act may be cited as the Regulation of Employment (Amendment) Act, 1975, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Section 8 of the Regulation of Employment Act (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the principal Act”) is hereby amended by inserting immediately after subsection (2) thereof the following new subsection: —“(3) No employer or contractor shall employ an employee or contract worker, as the case may be, otherwise than in accordance with the conditions contained in the work permit.”.

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 8 thereof the following new section: —“Self-employed persons carrying on certain occupations to apply for work permits8A. The Minister may from time to time by notification in the Gazette prohibit any person, not being employed under a contract of service, from engaging in any trade, calling, occupation, or other activity for the purposes of gain that is specified in the notification unless he has obtained a work permit for that purpose.”.

Subsection (2) of section 11 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after the word “defaced” appearing at the end thereof the words “upon payment of the prescribed fee”.

Subsection (1) of section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended —

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 14 the following new section: —“Compounding of offences14A. The Commissioner may compound any offence under this Act by accepting from the person reasonably suspected of committing the offence a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.”.

Section 16 of the principal Act is hereby amended by deleting subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(1) The provisions of subsections (1) and (3) of section 4, subsection (2) of section 8 and section 8A shall not apply to citizens of Singapore.”.