Employment Act 1955 · Updated to 1 Aug 2023 · Part XIX · Repeal and Saving
103. Repeal and saving
Feedback & supportThe written laws specified in the first and second columns of the Second Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent set out in the third column of the said Schedule:
Provided that any appointment made under such written law hereby repealed shall be deemed to be made under this Act:
Provided further that references to any provision of any written law hereby repealed in any other written law or in any contract or other instrument in writing shall, in so far as such provision is not inconsistent with the corresponding provision of this Act, be construed as references to such corresponding provision.
*NOTE—see paragraph 46(1), (2) and (3) of the Employment (Amendment)
Act 2022 [Act A1651] which comes into operation on 1 January 2023 which provides the following provision:
Savings and transitional
Any complaint, investigation, inquiry, trial, prosecution, proceedings or appeal done, taken or commenced under the principal Act immediately before the date of coming into operation of this Act, shall be dealt with, continued and concluded under and in accordance with the provisions of the principal
principal
“principal” means any person who in the course of or for the purposes of his trade or business contracts with a contractor for the execution by or under the contractor of the whole or any part of any work undertaken by the principal;
Act as if the principal Act had not been amended by this Act.
Any application for approval made under subsection 25a(2) of the principal Act which is pending before the date of coming into operation of this Act shall, on the date of coming into operation of this Act, be dealt with in accordance with the provision of the principal Act as amended by this Act.
Any employer who, before the date of coming into operation of this
employer
“employer” means any person who has entered into a contract of service to employ any other person as an employee and includes the agent, manager or factor of such first mentioned person, and the word “employ”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly;
Act, has employed any foreign employee but who has not fulfilled any of the requirements under section 60k of the principal Act shall, on the date of coming into operation of this Act, be dealt with in accordance with the provision of the principal Act as if the principal Act had not been amended by this Act.
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