Foreign employee dormitory deemed to be public place
s 29
Open ↗29. Every foreign employee dormitory is deemed to be a public place for the purposes of section 14(1) of the Liquor Control (Supply and Consumption) Act 2015.[5/2015]
Source
Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015 PART 5 — MISCELLANEOUS
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Service of documents
s 30
Open ↗30.—(1) A document that is permitted or required by this Act to be served on a person may be served as described in this section. (2) A document permitted or required by this Act to be served on an individual may be served —(a) by giving it to the individual personally; (b) by sending it by prepaid registered post to the address specified by the individual for the service of documents or, if no address is so specified, the individual’s residential address or business address; (c) by leaving it at the individual’s residential address with an adult apparently resident there, or at the individual’s business address with an adult apparently employed there; (d) by affixing a copy of the document in a conspicuous place at the individual’s residential address or business address; (e) by sending it by fax to the fax number last known to the person giving or serving the document as the fax number for the service of documents on the individual; or (f) by sending it by email to the last email address of the individual. (3) A document permitted or required by this Act to be served on a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership) may be served —(a) by giving it to any partner, secretary or other similar officer of the partnership; (b) by leaving it at, or by sending it by prepaid registered post to, the partnership’s business address; (c) by sending it by fax to the fax number used at the partnership’s business address; or (d) by sending it by email to the partnership’s last email address. (4) A document permitted or required by this Act to be served on a body corporate (including a limited liability partnership) or an unincorporated association may be served —(a) by giving it to the secretary or other like officer of the body corporate or unincorporated association, or the limited liability partnership’s manager; (b) by leaving it at, or by sending it by prepaid registered post to, the registered office or principal office in Singapore of the body corporate or unincorporated association; (c) by sending it by fax to the fax number used at the registered office or principal office in Singapore of the body corporate or unincorporated association; or (d) by sending it by email to the last email address of the body corporate or unincorporated association. (5) Service of a document under subsection (1) takes effect —(a) if the document is sent by fax and a notification of successful transmission is received, on the day of transmission; (b) if the document is sent by email, at the time that the email becomes capable of being retrieved by the person to whom it is addressed; and (c) if the document is sent by prepaid registered post, 2 days after the day the document is posted (even if it is returned undelivered). (6) This section does not apply to documents to be served in proceedings in court. (7) In this section —“business address” means —(a) in the case of an individual, the individual’s usual or last known place of business in Singapore; or (b) in the case of a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership), the partnership’s principal or last known place of business in Singapore; “last email address” means the last email address given by the addressee concerned to the person serving the document as the email address for the service of documents under this Act, or the last email address of the addressee concerned known to the person serving the document; “residential address” means an individual’s usual or last known place of residence in Singapore.
Protection from personal liability
s 31
Open ↗31. No liability shall lie against the Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner for Foreign Employee Dormitories, an Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Employee Dormitories or any other dormitory inspector for anything done or intended to be done with reasonable care and in good faith in the execution or purported execution of this Act.
General exemption
s 32
Open ↗32. The Minister may, by order in the Gazette, exempt any person or class of persons from all or any provisions of this Act, either generally or in a particular case and subject to any conditions that the Minister may impose.
Jurisdiction of courts
s 33
Open ↗33. Despite any provision to the contrary in the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, a District Court or a Magistrate’s Court has jurisdiction to try any offence under this Act and has power to impose the full penalty or punishment in respect of the offence.
Regulations
s 34
Open ↗34.—(1) The Minister may make regulations necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) In particular, the Minister may make regulations for any of the following:(a) classes of licences; (b) the form and manner in which, and the time within which, an application for a licence or an application to renew a licence may be made, and the information and evidence required to be provided in connection with such an application; (c) the carrying out of probity checks of applicants for a licence, and of individuals who are or are proposed to be a manager of boarding premises operated as a foreign employee dormitory; (d) the duties of licensed operators in connection with operating foreign employee dormitories; (e) the appointment, duties and qualifications of managers of boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories, including but not limited to the maximum number of such premises in respect of which the manager may be appointed as manager; (f) standards to be observed and facilities to be provided in boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories to prevent overcrowding, for the maintenance, cleanliness, water supply, sanitation and hygiene of the premises, and generally in connection with the health, safety and wellbeing of foreign employees residing at the premises; (g) a standard form of occupancy agreement, for use for different classes of boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories, occupancy agreements or parties and the enforceability of occupancy agreements that are not in the standard form, except that the terms of standard forms of occupancy agreements must not apply to occupancy agreements entered into before the regulations for those standard forms take effect; (h) the fees to be paid in respect of applications for, and the grant and renewal or late renewal of, any licence and otherwise in connection with the administration of this Act, and the waiver, reduction or refund of fees charged; (i) the records that are to be kept by licensed operators and managers of boarding premises operated as foreign employee dormitories and the provision of returns and other information with respect to the premises. (3) In particular, the Minister may, for the purposes of the definition of “boarding premises” in section 2(1), make regulations —(a) prescribing that the buildings, structures or facilities of a specified or described nature, or adapted or designed in a specified or described way, are to be regarded by the Commissioner under section 2(2) as a single complex of premises in the administration of this Act; or (b) prescribing criteria by which the Commissioner may determine under section 2(2) whether buildings, structures or facilities are to be regarded as a single complex of premises in the administration of this Act. (4) In particular, the Minister may, for the purposes of the definition of “occupancy load” in section 2(1), make regulations —(a) prescribing the criteria by which the Commissioner is to determine the occupancy load of any premises; and (b) adopting or incorporating by reference, any number —(i) contained in or prescribed by or under any written law as in force at a particular time or from time to time relating to maximum occupancy of boarding premises; or (ii) contained in or specified by any agreement, permission, approval, authorisation or other document (by whatever name) made with, issued or granted or to be made with, issued or granted, to a proprietor or an operator of boarding premises relating to its maximum occupancy by a public authority. (5) Regulations made under this section may —(a) prescribe the offences under this Act that may be compounded; (b) provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $50,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or with both; and (c) provide for such transitional, saving and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as the Minister considers necessary or expedient. (6) All regulations made under this section must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.
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