Singapore legislation
Regulation 14
Regulation 14
Register of clients
Subregulation 1
Before providing any massage services to any individual seeking massage in an establishment for massage, the licensee of the establishment for massage must require the individual to furnish the following particulars to the licensee:
the individual’s full name;
the individual’s identity card number or the particulars of the individual’s passport or other travel document;
the individual’s nationality;
the date and time of the individual’s arrival at the establishment for massage for the massage service.
Subregulation 2
The licensee must immediately enter or cause to be entered in a register the particulars furnished under paragraph (1).
Subregulation 3
The licensee must immediately enter or cause to be entered in a register the date and time when the individual whose particulars are entered under paragraph (2) leaves the establishment for massage.
Subregulation 4
The licensee must keep the register for at least one year after the date of the final entry in the register.
Subregulation 5
The licensee must not enter or cause to be entered in the register any individual’s particulars which the licensee knows or has reason to believe is false.
Subregulation 6
Any person who contravenes paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5) 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 7
For the purposes of paragraph (6), a person is a repeat offender in relation to an offence under that paragraph if the person who is convicted of —
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (1) has been convicted on at least one other earlier occasion of —
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (1); or
an offence under rule 13 of the revoked Rules or section 9(d) of the repealed Act for contravening rule 9(1) of the revoked Rules, whether the conviction was before, on or after 1 March 2018;
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (2) has been convicted on at least one other earlier occasion of —
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (2); or
an offence under rule 13 of the revoked Rules or section 9(d) of the repealed Act for contravening rule 9(2) of the revoked Rules, whether the conviction was before, on or after 1 March 2018;
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (3) has been convicted on at least one other earlier occasion of —
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (3); or
an offence under rule 13 of the revoked Rules or section 9(d) of the repealed Act for contravening rule 9(3) of the revoked Rules, whether the conviction was before, on or after 1 March 2018;
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (4) has been convicted on at least one other earlier occasion of —
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (4); or
an offence under rule 13 of the revoked Rules or section 9(d) of the repealed Act for contravening rule 9(4) of the revoked Rules, whether the conviction was before, on or after 1 March 2018; or
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (5) has been convicted on at least one other earlier occasion of —
an offence under paragraph (6) for contravening paragraph (5); or
an offence under rule 13 of the revoked Rules or section 9(d) of the repealed Act for contravening rule 9(5) of the revoked Rules, whether the conviction was before, on or after 1 March 2018.