§ 96 — Regulations

96.—(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 all or any of the following matters:(a)

the records that must be maintained by a platform operator, including the form and contents of the records and the manner in which the records are to be displayed;

(b)

the statistics that must be collected, including the method of collecting the statistics (either in connection with or independently of any other public authority), the staff to be employed in connection with the collection, the duties to be performed and the publications (if any) to be issued;

(c)

the regulation of the conduct of a platform operator towards a platform worker, for the purposes of protecting the platform worker from any practice relating to the provision of a platform service that may adversely affect the platform worker’s wellbeing;

(d)

prescribe the administrative penalties for civil contraventions under Part 4 of an amount not exceeding $1,000 for each occasion of a civil contravention, and $2,000 in the case of a second or subsequent occasion of the civil contravention;

(e)

the manner in which an appeal may be made to the Minister under this Act and the procedure for such appeals;

(f)

any matter that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Act.

(3) Regulations made under this section may provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $10,000.

(4) All regulations made under this Act must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.

—(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 all or any of the following matters:(a)

the records that must be maintained by a platform operator, including the form and contents of the records and the manner in which the records are to be displayed;

(b)

the statistics that must be collected, including the method of collecting the statistics (either in connection with or independently of any other public authority), the staff to be employed in connection with the collection, the duties to be performed and the publications (if any) to be issued;

(c)

the regulation of the conduct of a platform operator towards a platform worker, for the purposes of protecting the platform worker from any practice relating to the provision of a platform service that may adversely affect the platform worker’s wellbeing;

(d)

prescribe the administrative penalties for civil contraventions under Part 4 of an amount not exceeding $1,000 for each occasion of a civil contravention, and $2,000 in the case of a second or subsequent occasion of the civil contravention;

(e)

the manner in which an appeal may be made to the Minister under this Act and the procedure for such appeals;

(f)

any matter that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Act.

(3) Regulations made under this section may provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $10,000.

(4) All regulations made under this Act must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.