Singapore legislation

Regulation 5B

of Work Injury Compensation (Insurance) Regulations 2020

Regulation 5B

Designated PO’s insurer to issue certificate of insurance to platform operator

Amended byS 803/2024 wef 15/10/2024

Subregulation 1

Where a designated PO’s insurer insures a platform operator under an approved platform worker insurance policy, the designated PO’s insurer must, within 7 days after the date on which the approved platform worker insurance policy commences or is renewed, issue to the platform operator a certificate of insurance containing the following particulars:

(a)

the name of the insurer;

(b)

the name of the insured;

(c)

the date of commencement of the policy;

(d)

the date of expiry of the policy.

Subregulation 2

A person that contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)

to a fine not exceeding $2,000; or

(b)

if the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $4,000.

Subregulation 3

The certificate of insurance mentioned in paragraph (1) may be provided in electronic form if the information contained therein is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference.

Subregulation 4

Amended byS 803/2024 wef 15/10/2024

In paragraph (2)(b), “repeat offender”, in relation to an offence under paragraph (2), means a person who —

(a)

is convicted, or found guilty, of an offence under paragraph (2); and

(b)

has been convicted, or found guilty, of any of the following offences on at least one other earlier occasion:

(i)

an offence under paragraph (2);

(ii)

an offence under regulation 4(2), whether the conviction was before, on or after 15 October 2024.