On 25/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 25/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 25/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 11/06/2007.
4. Section 2 of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting the words “Work Permits” in the definition of “Controller” and substituting the words “Work Passes”;
(b)
by deleting the definition of “employer” and substituting the following definitions:
“ “employ” means to engage or use the service of any person for the purpose —
(a)
of any work; or
(b)
of providing any training for that person,
whether under a contract of service or otherwise, and with or without salary;
“employer” means any person employing a foreign employee and, for the purposes of an application for a work pass, any person who intends to employ a foreign employee;”;
(c)
by inserting, immediately after the definition of “employment inspector”, the following definition:
“ “foreign employee” means —
(a)
any foreigner, other than a self-employed foreigner, who seeks or is offered employment in Singapore; or
(b)
such other person or class of persons as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, specify;”;
(d)
by deleting the definition of “foreign worker”; and
(e)
by deleting the definitions of “premises”, “salary” and “work permit” and substituting the following definitions:
“ “premises” includes —
(a)
any building or structure, whether permanent or temporary;
(b)
any land, whether or not built on;
(c)
any place, whether or not enclosed, including any place situated underground or underwater;
(d)
any vehicle, vessel or aircraft; and
(e)
any part of any premises;
“self-employed foreigner” means any foreigner who, not being employed under a contract of service, engages in any trade, vocation, profession or other activity in Singapore for the purpose of gain;
“train”, in relation to a foreign employee, means to teach, instruct or educate the foreign employee in relation to the work in which the foreign employee is employed or to be employed;
“work pass” means a work pass belonging to any prescribed category of work passes which is issued by the Controller under section 7.”.