SINGAPORE LEGISLATION

• Published date: 01 December 1990
• Author: CHARLES LIM AENG CHENG
• Citation: (1990) 2 SAcLJ 350
• Date: 01 December 1990

A Digest of Legislation Made Between June 1990 and November 1990.

I. Acts Passed Between June 1990 and November 1990 in Alphabetical Order

Administration of Muslim Law (Amendment) Act 1990

Act No. 14 of 1990

Long title: An Act to amend the Administration of Muslim Law Act (Chapter 3 of the 1985 Revised Edition).

Passed by Parliament on: 18th July 1990

Assented to by President on: 23rd August 1990

Publication date: 31st August 1990

Commencement date: 1st October 1990 vide S 347/90.

Summary: This Act amends the Administration of Muslim Law Act for the following purposes:

1. (a) to amend the definition of “Yayasan Mendaki” to take into account the fact that the body known as Yayasan Mendaki which was registered as a society under the Societies Act has been dissolved and its functions taken over by a body corporate of the same name incorporated under the Companies Act;

2. (b) to insert new definitions of “Register of Divorces”, “Register of Marriages” and “Register of Revocation of Divorces”;

3. (c) to amend section 5 (2) to empower the Majlis to erect any building on any property belonging to the Majlis;

4. (d) to provide for the appointment of a Vice-President of the Majlis to assist the President of the Majlis in the discharge of his functions and duties under the Act;

5. (e) to amend section 67 to alter the dates for the submission by the Majlis to the Minister of its estimates of income and expenditure and supplementary estimates of expenditure to bring them in line with the new financial year adopted by the Majlis;

6. (f) to amend section 91 (3) to specify a fixed period for the appointment of a Naib Kadi;

7. (g) to amend section 99 (1) to require a Kadi and Naib Kadi to send a copy of the certificate of marriage or revocation of divorce to the Registrar within one week of the registration of a marriage or revocation of divorce;

8. (h) to insert a new subsection (4) to section 99 to require a Kadi to send a copy of the certificate of divorce to the President of the Syariah Court within one week of the registration of a divorce;

9. (i) to re-enact section 100 to require the Registrar to maintain a Register of Marriages and a Register of Revocation of Divorces;

1. (j) to re-enact section 101 to allow the Registrar to correct any error of a clerical nature in any entry in any certificate of marriage or certificate of revocation of divorce or any certificate issued under the Act;

Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Act 1990

Act No. 15 of 1990

Long title: An Act to amend the Central Provident Fund Act (Chapter 36 of the 1988 Revised Edition).

Passed by Parliament on: 18th July 1990

Assented to by President on: 23rd August 1990

Publication date: 31st August 1990

Commencement date: 1st July 1990.

Summary: This Act amends the Central Provident Fund Act to empower the Central Provident Fund Board (the Board) to establish and maintain a medical insurance scheme to be called the MediShield Scheme for the purpose of reimbursing members of the Fund or their dependants who are insured under the Scheme such portion of their medical or other expenses incurred by them for treatment in any approved hospital. The Board is entitled to deduct the premiums payable by insured persons under the Scheme from the amount standing to their credit in the medisave account. The Minister is empowered to make regulations for the purposes of the Scheme.

Comments: Restrospective effect from 1st July 1990.

Central Provident Fund (Amendment No.2) Act 1990

Act No. 22 of 1990

Long title: An Act to amend the Central Provident Fund Act (Chapter 36 of the 1988 Revised Edition).

Passed by Parliament on: 4th October 1990

Assented to by President on: 1st November 1990

Publication date: 9th November 1990

Commencement date: 1st January 1990.

Summary: This Act amends the Central Provident Fund Act for the following purposes:

1. (a) to provide for the payment of contributions on additional wages based on the employee’s wages for the preceding year to be recomputed at the end of the year or in the last month of his employment based on the employee’s actual wages for the year;

2. (b) to provide for the refund by the Board of any excess contributions on additional wages;

3. (c) to allow the employer to recover from the wages of the employee the employee’s portion of any additional contributions on additional wages which the employer is entitled to recover from the wages of the employee as a result of recomputation, but such recovery shall not be

1. later than 6 months from the end of the year in which the additional contributions are payable;

2. (d) to allow the employer to make further contributions on additional wages if he foresees that additional contributions are likely at the end of the year as a result of recomputation of contributions payable;

3. (e) to empower the Board to waive the payment of any contributions on additional wages that an employer is unable to recover from the wages of an employee who is no longer in his employment; and

4. (f) to empower the Minister to make regulations to provide for the manner of refund by the Board of excess contributions on additional wages.

Comments: Restrospective effect from 1st January 1990.

Controlled Premises (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Act 1990.

Act No. 17 of 1990

Long title: An Act to amend the Controlled Premises (Special Provisions) Act (Chapter 60 of the 1985 Revised Edition).

Passed by Parliament on: 30th August 1990

Assented to by President on: 28th September 1990

Publication date: 12th October 1990

Commencement date: 12th October 1990 vide S 375/90.

Summary: This Act makes the following amendments to the Controlled Premises (Special Provisions) Act.

Section 2 amends the definition of “plan for development” and inserts a new definition of “Deputy Chairman”.

Section 3 repeals and re-enacts with amendments section 6 of the Act. It provides that the Board shall consist of a Chairman, such number of Deputy Chairmen as the Minister may determine and not less than 4 nor more than 15 other members as the Minister may determine, all of whom shall be appointed by the Minister.

Section 4 provides that all fees and charges collected under the Act or any rules made thereunder shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund subject to any agreement between the Minister and the...