Employment Act 1955 · Updated to 1 Aug 2023 · Part XIII · Registers, Returns and Notice Boards
61. Duty to keep registers
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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;
Every such register shall be preserved for such period that every particular recorded therein shall be available for inspection for not less than six years after the recording thereof.
Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), the Director
General, on a written application by an employer, may permit the employer to keep the information required under subsection (1)
in any other manner as may be approved by the Director General subject to such conditions as he may deem fit to impose.
Director General
“Director General” means the Director General of Labour appointed under subsection 3(1);