Skills and Workforce Development Agency Bill

PRELIMINARY

This Act is the Skills and Workforce Development Agency Act 2026 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

In this Act —“Agency” means the Skills and Workforce Development Agency established by section 3;“authorised person” means an authorised person appointed by the Agency under section 46(1);“career, employment and training matters” means matters relating to supporting individuals and employers in their career and workforce needs, including career planning, training, general learning and skills development, job search, job mobility, recruitment, workforce planning, job redesign, retraining and talent development;“Chairperson” means the member of the Agency who is appointed under section 12(1)(a) as the Chairperson of the Agency, and includes any individual appointed under section 14(1) to act in that capacity;“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Agency appointed under section 32, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;“commerce or industry” includes any trade, manufacturing or service industry, business or other economic activity;“committee” means a committee of the Agency appointed under section 28;“committee member” means an individual appointed to be a member of a committee under section 28;“company” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;“delegate” means a person to whom the Agency under section 30(1) delegates any of its functions or powers;“Deputy Chairperson” means a member of the Agency who is appointed under section 12(1)(b) as a Deputy Chairperson of the Agency;“document” means any thing (in whatever form) in which information or material of any description is recorded or stored, and includes any tape, disk or other storage device or medium;“Finance Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for finance;“functions”, in relation to the Agency, means functions conferred on the Agency by this Act or any other Act;“grant” includes a grant by way of reimbursement under a reimbursement arrangement;“inspector” means an inspector appointed by the Agency under section 46(2);“job redesign” means the review and reallocation by an employer of job duties and tasks among employees;“member”, in relation to the Agency, means a member of the Agency who is appointed under section 10(1), and includes any individual appointed under section 14(2) to act in that capacity;“officer”, in relation to a public body, means an employee of the public body and includes an individual under a secondment arrangement which makes available the service of the individual to the public body;“permanent resident of Singapore” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Immigration Act 1959;“public body” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function, but excludes a Town Council established under section 4 of the Town Councils Act 1988;“reimbursement arrangement” means a written arrangement made between the Agency and a service provider in respect of the provision of any career and employment services, or training, to a person eligible to receive any financial incentive, support, grant, aid or assistance from the Agency to the effect that where —(a)the person so eligible receives the services or training for a charge; and(b)the service provider incurs costs and expenses in providing the services or training to that eligible person,the service provider is entitled, under the arrangement, to reimbursement from the Agency of the whole or part of the charges or costs and expenses mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) or both;“service provider” means a provider of career and employment services or a provider of training;“Skills Development Fund” means the Skills Development Fund established under section 5 of the Skills Development Levy Act 1979;“subdelegate” means a person to whom a delegate under section 30(2) further delegates any of the Agency’s functions or powers.

“Agency” means the Skills and Workforce Development Agency established by section 3;

“authorised person” means an authorised person appointed by the Agency under section 46(1);

“career, employment and training matters” means matters relating to supporting individuals and employers in their career and workforce needs, including career planning, training, general learning and skills development, job search, job mobility, recruitment, workforce planning, job redesign, retraining and talent development;

“Chairperson” means the member of the Agency who is appointed under section 12(1)(a) as the Chairperson of the Agency, and includes any individual appointed under section 14(1) to act in that capacity;

“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Agency appointed under section 32, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;

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

“committee” means a committee of the Agency appointed under section 28;

“committee member” means an individual appointed to be a member of a committee under section 28;

“company” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;

“delegate” means a person to whom the Agency under section 30(1) delegates any of its functions or powers;

“Deputy Chairperson” means a member of the Agency who is appointed under section 12(1)(b) as a Deputy Chairperson of the Agency;

“document” means any thing (in whatever form) in which information or material of any description is recorded or stored, and includes any tape, disk or other storage device or medium;

“Finance Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for finance;

“functions”, in relation to the Agency, means functions conferred on the Agency by this Act or any other Act;

“grant” includes a grant by way of reimbursement under a reimbursement arrangement;

“inspector” means an inspector appointed by the Agency under section 46(2);

“job redesign” means the review and reallocation by an employer of job duties and tasks among employees;

“member”, in relation to the Agency, means a member of the Agency who is appointed under section 10(1), and includes any individual appointed under section 14(2) to act in that capacity;

“officer”, in relation to a public body, means an employee of the public body and includes an individual under a secondment arrangement which makes available the service of the individual to the public body;

“permanent resident of Singapore” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Immigration Act 1959;

“public body” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function, but excludes a Town Council established under section 4 of the Town Councils Act 1988;

“reimbursement arrangement” means a written arrangement made between the Agency and a service provider in respect of the provision of any career and employment services, or training, to a person eligible to receive any financial incentive, support, grant, aid or assistance from the Agency to the effect that where —(a)the person so eligible receives the services or training for a charge; and(b)the service provider incurs costs and expenses in providing the services or training to that eligible person,the service provider is entitled, under the arrangement, to reimbursement from the Agency of the whole or part of the charges or costs and expenses mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) or both;

“service provider” means a provider of career and employment services or a provider of training;

“Skills Development Fund” means the Skills Development Fund established under section 5 of the Skills Development Levy Act 1979;

“subdelegate” means a person to whom a delegate under section 30(2) further delegates any of the Agency’s functions or powers.