Singapore legislation

Regulation 12

of Massage Establishments Rules 2018

Regulation 12

Licensee’s supervision of employees

Subregulation 1

A licensee of an establishment for massage must ensure that every employee of the licensee must not, in the course of the individual’s employment at the establishment for massage —

(a)

provide, or offer to provide, any sexual service to any other individual in the establishment for massage;

(b)

engage in any indecent act in the establishment for massage;

(c)

be indecently dressed in the establishment for massage; and

(d)

tout for business or loiter outside the establishment for massage.

Subregulation 2

Any person who contravenes paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and, where the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.

Subregulation 3

For the purposes of paragraph (2), a person is a repeat offender in relation to an offence under that paragraph if the person who is convicted of —

(a)

an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(a) has been convicted on at least one earlier occasion of an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(a);

(b)

an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(b) has been convicted on at least one earlier occasion of an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(b);

(c)

an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(c) has been convicted on at least one earlier occasion of an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(c); or

(d)

an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(d) has been convicted on at least one earlier occasion of an offence under paragraph (2) for contravening paragraph (1)(d).