Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Amendment of section 2
Section 2 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1975 (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the principal Act) is amended by deleting paragraph (a) of the definition of “workman” in subsection (1) and substituting the following: —“(a)a person employed otherwise than by way of manual labour whose earnings, calculated in accordance with section 8, exceed —
(i)
one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars a month where no other maximum amount of the earnings is specified under sub-paragraph (ii); or
(ii)
where the maximum amount of the earnings is specified under this sub-paragraph by the Minister from time to time by notification in the Gazette, such amount as may for the time being be so specified;”.