s 33 Regulatory action in respect of approved individuals
33.—(1) Subject to section 34, the Director‑General may cancel (without compensation) an approval granted under section 21 for a licensee to —(a) appoint an approved individual as a key appointment holder of the licensee; (b) appoint an approved individual as the person‑in‑charge of the licensable SRH to which the licensee’s licence relates; or (c) deploy an approved individual to carry out a prescribed duty or a duty belonging to a prescribed class of duties in relation to —(i) the operation of the licensable SRH to which the licensee’s licence relates; or (ii) the management of the residents of that licensable SRH, on any of the following grounds: (d) the licensee or approved individual is contravening or not complying with, or has contravened or failed to comply with —(i) any condition of the approval; (ii) any provision of this Act, the contravention of which is not an offence under this Act; or (iii) a confirmed interim order under section 35; (e) the licensee or approved individual is convicted of any of the following offences committed during the term of the licence:(i) any offence under this Act; (ii) an offence specified in the First Schedule to the Registration of Criminals Act 1949; (iii) an offence, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, involving dishonesty or the conviction for which involved a finding that the licensee or approved individual had acted dishonestly; (iv) any prescribed offence; (f) the approved individual is no longer a suitable person —(i) in the case of paragraph (a) — to be appointed as a key appointment holder of the licensee; (ii) in the case of paragraph (b) — to be appointed as the person‑in‑charge of the licensable SRH to which the licensee’s licence relates; or (iii) in the case of paragraph (c) — to carry out the prescribed duty or duty mentioned in that paragraph; (g) the approval has been obtained by fraud or misrepresentation; (h) the public interest so requires. (2) However, the Director‑General may, in lieu of cancelling the approval, do either or both of the following (without compensation):(a) modify any condition of the approval; (b) suspend the approval for not more than 6 months in respect of the approved individual —(i) being appointed as a licensee’s key appointment holder; (ii) being appointed as a licensable SRH’s person‑in‑charge; or (iii) being deployed to carry out a prescribed duty or a duty mentioned in subsection (1)(c), as the case may be. (3) In taking any regulatory action under this section in relation to the conviction of an individual for a criminal offence, the Director‑General may accept the individual’s conviction as final.