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SkillsFuture Singapore Agency Bill - Singapore Statutes Online
SkillsFuture Singapore Agency Bill
Bill No: 24/2016
Read the first time: 11th July 2016
Part 2 ESTABLISHMENT, FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF AGENCY
3 SkillsFuture Singapore Agency
4 Agency is body corporate
5 Functions of Agency
6 Powers of Agency
7 Directions of Minister, etc.
8 Agency’s symbol, etc.
Part 3 CONSTITUTION AND MEMBERSHIP OF AGENCY
Division 1 — Appointment, resignation and removal
9 Membership of Agency
10 Appointment of Agency members
11 Membership disqualification
12 Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson
13 Premature vacancies
14 Acting Chairperson and members
15 Removal of member
16 Resignation from office
17 Validity of acts, etc.
Division 2 — Terms and conditions for members
18 Term of appointment
19 Remuneration, etc.
20 Vacation of office
Division 3 — Members’ duties on disclosure of interests
21 Interpretation of this Division
22 Obligation to disclose interest
23 To whom and what to disclose
24 Consequences of being interested in relevant matter
25 Consequences of failure to disclose
Part 4 DECISION‑MAKING BY AGENCY
Division 1 — Meetings
26 Procedure generally
27 Notice of meetings
28 Method of holding meetings
29 Quorum
30 Presiding at meetings
31 Voting at meetings
32 Decision‑making outside of meetings
33 Execution of documents
Division 2 — Committees and delegation
34 Appointment of committees
35 Proceedings of committees
36 Ability to delegate
37 Power of delegate
Part 5 PERSONNEL MATTERS
38 Appointment of Chief Executive
40 Public servants
41 Preservation of secrecy
42 Protection from personal liability
Part 6 FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
43 Financial year
44 Revenue and property of Agency
45 Bank accounts
46 Financial accounts and records
47 Annual estimates
48 Power of investment
49 Issue of shares, etc.
50 Borrowing power
51 Appointment of auditor
52 Powers of auditor
53 Auditor’s report
54 Audited annual financial statements
55 Annual and other reports of Agency
56 Skills Development Fund to be audited separately
57 Powers to verify information collected or for grants, etc.
58 False or misleading information, statement or document, etc.
59 Penalty for obstructing Agency in carrying out its functions
60 Composition of offences
61 Offences by corporations
62 Offences by unincorporated associations or partnerships
63 Service of documents
Part 8 TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS TO AGENCY
65 Interpretation of this Part
66 Transfer of undertakings to Agency
67 Transferring secondments and SWDA employees to Agency
68 General preservation of employment terms
69 Transfer of records
70 Confirmation of transfers
Part 9 CONSEQUENTIAL AND RELATED AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS
Division 1 — Private Education Act
71 Consequential amendments to Private Education Act
72 Related amendments to Private Education Act
73 Saving and transitional provisions
Division 2 — Skills Development Levy Act
74 Consequential amendments to Skills Development Levy Act
Division 3 — Other Acts
75 Consequential amendments to Income Tax Act
76 Consequential amendments to Institute of Technical Education Act
77 Consequential amendment to Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Act
78 Consequential amendments to other Acts
Published in Bills Supplement on 11 Jul 2016
Bill No. 24/2016
Read the first time on 11th July 2016.
An Act to establish the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other Acts.
1. This Act is the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency Act 2016 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.
“adult education” means that part of post‑secondary education and training which is directed towards the development or upgrading of skills and knowledge in relation to work in commerce or industry;
“Agency” means the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency established by section 3;
“auditor”, in relation to the Agency, means the Auditor‑General or such other auditor appointed by the Minister under section 51;
“Chairperson”, in relation to the Agency, means the member of the Agency who is appointed under section 12 as the Chairperson of the Agency, and includes any individual appointed under section 14 to act in that capacity;
“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Agency appointed under section 38, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;
“commerce or industry” includes any trade, manufacturing or service industry, business or other related activity;
“committee” means a committee of the Agency appointed under section 34;
“committee member” means an individual appointed to be a member of a committee;
“delegate” means a person to whom the Agency under section 36(1) delegates the performance or exercise of any of its functions or powers;
“Deputy Chairperson”, in relation to the Agency, means the member of the Agency who is appointed under section 12 as the Deputy Chairperson of the Agency;
“functions”, in relation to the Agency, means functions conferred on the Agency by this Act or any other Act;
“further education” means a post‑secondary education program that leads to the development of knowledge and skills that are not specific to any particular occupation;
“grant” includes a grant by way of reimbursement under a reimbursement arrangement;
“member”, in relation to the Agency, means a member of the Agency who is appointed under section 10, and includes any person appointed under section 14 to act in that capacity;
“post‑secondary education” means education of persons —
(a) who are the age of 16 years or older; and
(b) who are not undergoing a course of education at any of the following:
(i) a Government school;
(ii) a school registered under the Education Act (Cap. 87) and which receives a grant‑in‑aid or subvention extended by the Government to aided schools within the meaning of that Act;
(iii) an education institution providing education in accordance with religious beliefs and principles;
“private education” has the same meaning as in the Private Education Act (Cap. 247A);
“reimbursement arrangement” means a written arrangement made in respect of any adult education or further education provided to a person eligible to financial incentives, support, grant, aid or assistance from the Agency to the effect that where —
(a) the person so eligible receives or undergoes adult education or further education for a charge; and
(b) the provider of the adult education or further education incurs costs and expenses in providing the education to that eligible person,
the provider of the adult education or further education is entitled, under the arrangement, to reimbursement from the Agency of the whole or part of its charges in respect of the education so provided, but in no case exceeding that person’s eligibility to financial incentive, support, grant, aid or assistance (as the case may be) for that education;
“Singapore Workforce Development Agency” or “SWDA” means the Singapore Workforce Development Agency established by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency Act (Cap. 305D);
“subdelegate” means a person to whom a delegate under section 36(2) further delegates the performance or exercise of any of the Agency’s functions or powers;
“transfer date” means the date of commencement of Part 8.
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