Singapore legislation

Regulation 16

of Massage Establishments Rules 2018

Regulation 16

Notification of change of responsible officers, etc.

Subregulation 1

A licensee of an establishment for massage must notify the Licensing Officer no later than 7 days after any change in the identity of the following:

(a)

any responsible officer specified in the licence application for that establishment;

(b)

any person having substantial interest in, or control or direction over, the business of the licensee.

Subregulation 2

Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) 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 the offence has been convicted on at least one other earlier occasion of —

(a)

an offence under paragraph (2); or

(b)

an offence under rule 13 of the revoked Rules or section 9(d) of the repealed Act for contravening rule 11 of the revoked Rules, whether the conviction was before, on or after 1 March 2018.