Employment (Sick Leave — Hospitalisation) Regulations 2019

No. S 199

Employment Act

(CHAPTER 91)

Employment
(Sick Leave — Hospitalisation)
Regulations 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 139 of the Employment Act, the Minister for Manpower makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Employment (Sick Leave — Hospitalisation) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 1 April 2019.

Hospitalisation of employee

2.  For the purposes of section 89(3)(a) of the Act, an employee is hospitalised if the employee is warded in a hospital —

(a) for any surgical treatment where the employee is admitted to, and discharged from, the hospital on the same day (called in this regulation day surgical treatment);

(b) for a period of 8 hours or longer (other than for day surgical treatment); or

(c) for a period of less than 8 hours before dying in the hospital.

Made on 29 March 2019.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[WPSD/ESLR/20190328; AG/LEGIS/SL/91/2015/10 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 139(3) of the Employment Act).