Institute of Technical Education Act 1992

“Board” means the Board of Governors established under section 7(1);

“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Board appointed under section 7(3);

“Chief Executive Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;

“commerce or industry” includes any trade, manufacturing or service industry, business or other related activity;

“Deputy Chairperson” means the Deputy Chairperson of the Board appointed under section 7(4);

“Institute” means the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore established under section 3;

“member” means a member of the Board;

“technical skills” means the skills acquired through technical education and training or other means for employment in commerce or industry;

“Vocational and Industrial Training Board” means the Vocational and Industrial Training Board established under the repealed Vocational and Industrial Training Board Act (Cap. 345, 1985 Revised Edition).

The Institute must have a common seal and the seal may be broken, changed, altered and made anew as the Institute thinks fit.

All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the Institute must be sealed with the common seal of the Institute and every instrument to which the common seal is affixed must be signed by a member and must be countersigned by the Chief Executive Officer or by some other person duly authorised by the Board for that purpose, and the signing is sufficient evidence that the seal was duly and properly affixed and that the seal is the lawful seal of the Institute.

Section 11 of the Registration of Deeds Act 1988 does not apply to any instrument purporting to have been executed under subsection (2).

The Institute may, for the purpose of discharging its functions

In subsection (1)(f), “company”

There is to be a Board of Governors of the Institute which is the executive body of the Institute and may exercise all the powers conferred on the Institute under this Act.

The Board consists of the following members:

The Chairperson and other members are to be appointed by the Minister and, unless the Minister otherwise directs, hold office for a period of 3 years from the date of their respective appointments and are eligible for re‑appointment.

The Minister may appoint any member to be the Deputy Chairperson of the Board.

The Deputy Chairperson so appointed may, subject to any direction that the Chairperson may give, exercise all or any of the powers exercisable by the Chairperson under this Act.

The Minister may appoint a person to be a temporary member during the absence from Singapore, or incapacity owing to illness or otherwise, of a member.

The Minister may at any time revoke the appointment of a member without giving any reason.

A member may resign from his or her appointment at any time by giving written notice to the Minister.

If a vacancy occurs in the membership of the Board, the Minister may appoint any person to fill the vacancy and the person so appointed holds office for the unexpired period of the term of office of the member in whose place he or she is appointed.

Where the member in whose place a person is appointed under subsection (1) was a representative of a person or class of persons, the member so appointed must be a representative of the same person or class of persons.

The Chairperson must summon meetings as often as may be required.

At every meeting of the Board, one‑third of the number of members constitutes a quorum.

Decisions at meetings of the Board are to be adopted by a simple majority of the votes of the members present and voting, except that in the case of an equality of votes the Chairperson, or in his or her absence the Deputy Chairperson, has a casting vote.

The Chairperson, or in his or her absence the Deputy Chairperson, presides at meetings of the Board.

The Board is not precluded from holding a meeting or acting in any matter merely by reason of any vacancy in its membership.

Subject to the provisions of this Act and the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018, the Board may make standing orders to regulate its own procedure and, in particular, the holding of meetings, the notice to be given of the meetings, the proceedings at the meetings, the keeping of minutes and the custody, production and inspection of the minutes.

The Minister may, after consulting the Board, give to the Institute any direction under section 5 of the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018.

The Board must give the Minister such information or facilities for obtaining information with regard to the exercise of its powers and functions in such manner and at such times as the Minister may reasonably require.

The Board may appoint any number of committees consisting of members or other persons or members and other persons for purposes that, in the opinion of the Board, would be better regulated and managed by means of those committees.

The Board may, subject to any conditions or restrictions that it thinks fit, delegate to any committee or the Chairperson or the Chief Executive Officer all or any of the powers, functions and duties by this Act vested in the Institute, and a power, function or duty so delegated may be exercised or performed by the committee or the Chairperson or the Chief Executive Officer (as the case may be) in the name and on behalf of the Institute.

The Board may, subject to any conditions or restrictions that it thinks fit, delegate to any employee of the Institute all or any of the powers, functions and duties by this Act vested in the Institute, and a power, function or duty so delegated may be exercised or performed by the employee in the name and on behalf of the Institute.

As from 1 April 1992, all lands, buildings and other properties, movable or immovable, rights, interests, privileges, obligations and liabilities vested in, belonging to or incurred by the Vocational and Industrial Training Board are transferred to and vest in the Institute without further assurance.

If any question arises as to which property, movable or immovable, has been transferred to and vested in the Institute under subsection (1), a certificate under the hand of the Minister is conclusive evidence of the vesting of that property in the Institute.

As from 1 April 1992, the persons employed by the Vocational and Industrial Training Board immediately before that date are transferred to the service of the Institute on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to their transfer.

Until the time that schemes and terms and conditions of service are drawn up by the Institute, the schemes and terms and conditions of service in the Vocational and Industrial Training Board continue to apply to every person transferred to the service of the Institute under subsection (1) as if the person were still in the service of that Board.

Where any person who is transferred to the service of the Institute under subsection (1) is a contributor under the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Act 1904, the person must for the purposes of that Act continue to make contributions under that Act as if the person had not been transferred to the service of the Institute; and for the purposes of that Act the person’s service with the Institute is deemed to be service with the Government and the Institute has the right to make deductions from the salary of that person to be paid as contributions under that Act.

Where any person who is transferred to the service of the Institute under subsection (1) was an employee of the Government transferred to the service of the Vocational and Industrial Training Board with the person’s pension benefits in respect of that employment preserved, the Government is liable to pay to the Institute the portion of any pension benefits payable on the person’s retirement that the same bears to the proportion which the aggregate amount of the person’s pensionable emoluments during the person’s service with the Government bears to the aggregate amount of the person’s pensionable emoluments during the person’s service under the Government, the former Industrial Training Board, the Vocational and Industrial Training Board and the Institute.

There must be a Chief Executive Officer of the Institute, whose appointment, removal, discipline and promotion must be in accordance with the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018.

The Board may, subject to the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018, appoint an individual to act temporarily as the Chief Executive Officer during any period, or during all periods, when the Chief Executive Officer

The Institute has the exclusive right to the use of such symbol, design or representation as it may select or devise in connection with its activities or affairs.

Any person or body corporate who uses a symbol, design or representation identical with that of the Institute or which so resembles the symbol, design or representation of the Institute as to deceive or cause confusion or to be likely to deceive or cause confusion shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.

The Institute has the exclusive right in the form and presentation of its titles of certificates or other qualifications issued by the Institute to any person who attains the standard set by the Institute.

Any person who issues or uses, or causes or permits the use of, titles of certificates or other qualifications identical with those of the Institute shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.

In relation to accidents happening to employees (within the meaning given by the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 or the Work Injury Compensation Act (Cap. 354, 2009 Revised Edition) repealed by that Act) who attend courses or avail themselves of the facilities provided or approved by the Institute, that Act has effect subject to subsection (2).

For the purposes of the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 or the Work Injury Compensation Act (Cap. 354, 2009 Revised Edition) repealed by that Act, any act done by an employee for the purposes of and in connection with his or her training referred to in subsection (1) is, if it is not done for the purposes of and in connection with his or her employer’s trade or business, deemed to be so done.

The Chief Executive Officer may require employers in commerce or industry to furnish such returns and other information and to keep such records and produce them for examination as appear to the Chief Executive Officer to be necessary for the purposes of this Act.

Subject to subsection (3), returns and other information furnished pursuant to subsection (1) and any information obtained on an examination made pursuant to subsection (1) must not, without the consent of the employer to whose business the returns or information relate, be disclosed otherwise than to

Subsection (2) does not apply to

A certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the Chief Executive Officer and stating that he or she has approved any kind of information, return or record for the purposes of subsection (2) is, in any legal proceedings, evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

Any person who fails to comply with any requirement made under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $2,000.

Any person who

The Institute may, with the approval of the Minister, make any regulations necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), the Institute may make regulations for all or any of the following matters:

Any document or thing done under any provision of the repealed Vocational and Industrial Training Board Act (Cap. 345, 1985 Revised Edition), and every such document or thing so far as it is subsisting or in force on 1 April 1992 continues and has effect as if it had been made or done under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

As from 1 April 1992, all references in any written law to the Vocational and Industrial Training Board are references to the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore.