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Acts & Ordinances
FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY
Marginal Notes
1. This Act may be cited as the Foreign Employment Agency Act, No. 32 of 1980, and shall come into operation on such date (hereinafter referred to as the "appointed date") as the Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, appoint.
2. Foreign employment agencies to be licensed.
3. Application of this Act.
4. Application for a licence.
5. Conditions for grant of licence.
6. Applicant to comply with directions issued by the Commissioner before issue of the licence.
7. Form and duration of licence.
8. Renewal of licence.
9. Cancellation of a licence.
10. Commissioner shall communicate his decision to applicant or licensee together with his reasons therefor.
11. Appeals.
12. Display of licence.
13. Fee for services not to exe prescribed fee.
14. Licensee to inform Commissioner of any change of particulars.
15. No action regarding recruitment to be taken without the approval of the Commissioner,
16. Authorized officer may be present at interview of person for recruitment for employment abroad.
17. Grounds on which approval may not be granted.
18. Contract of employment.
19. Maintenance of records.
20. Returns.
21. Powers of entry and inspection.
22. Directions of the Commissioner.
23. Inquiry into complaints made by persons recruited for employment abroad.
24. Regulations.
25. Offences.
26. Offences by body of persons.
27. Amendment of the Fee- Charging Employment Agencies Act, No. 37 of 1956.
28. Interpretation..