Singapore legislation
Regulation 15
Regulation 15
Continuing professional education requirements
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of section 32A(3) of the Act, a CPE-liable individual must accumulate at least 16 CPE training hours, consisting of the specified number of CPE training hours for each specified class of CPE activities, within each applicable period described in paragraph (1A).
Subregulation 1A
The period mentioned in paragraph (1) is —
each period of 12 months ending on 30 September of 2024 or an earlier calendar year;
the period of 15 months starting on 1 October 2024 and ending on 31 December 2025; or
the calendar year 2026 or a subsequent calendar year.
Subregulation 2
For the purposes of paragraph (1), the Council may —
determine the activities, courses and programmes relating to the continuing professional education of CPE‑liable individuals that qualify as CPE activities;
specify one or more classes of CPE activities;
specify the number of CPE training hours that must be accumulated by a CPE‑liable individual in respect of each specified class of CPE activities;
specify the number of CPE training hours (being not less than one) that are accumulated upon the successful completion of a CPE activity; and
determine, whether for all or any particular CPE activity, that CPE training hours may be accumulated upon the successful completion of the CPE activity only if the CPE activity is an accredited CPE activity at the time that the CPE activity is completed.
Subregulation 3
For the purposes of enabling the Council to determine whether an individual has satisfied the CPE requirements under section 32A(2)(b) of the Act, the estate agent for whom the CPE-liable individual concerned carries out estate agency work must verify and certify in writing to the Council, in the form and manner specified by the Council, the following information concerning any non-accredited CPE activity that the individual has allegedly completed:
that the activity, course or programme concerned is a non-accredited CPE activity of a particular class;
that the individual has successfully completed the activity, course or programme;
the date of completion;
the CPE-liable individual’s attendance records for that activity, course or programme;
the number of hours completed for that activity, course or programme.
Subregulation 4
A CPE-liable individual and the estate agent for whom that CPE-liable individual carries out estate agency work must each keep the following records of any non-accredited CPE activity that the individual has successfully completed, for a period of 5 years after the date of completion of that CPE activity:
the CPE-liable individual’s attendance records for that CPE activity;
any document that is evidence that the CPE-liable individual has successfully completed that CPE activity.
Subregulation 5
In this regulation, “non-accredited CPE activity” means a CPE activity that is not an accredited CPE activity.