Section 113A

The employer shall, before the immigrant employee’s departure for Brunei Darussalam, purchase and maintain medical insurance with coverage of at least $100,000 for the immigrant employee’s medical treatment and surgery for the duration of his employment.

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For the purposes of subsection (1), where the employer purchases group medical insurance policy for his immigrant employees, the employer shall not be considered to have satisfied the obligation under

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subsection (1) unless the terms of the employer’s group medical insurance policy are such that each and every individual immigrant employee is concurrently covered to the extent required under that subsection.

Any employer who, for the purpose of defraying or partly defraying the cost of insurance in respect of his liability to pay medical insurance under subsection (1), makes any deduction from the earnings of an immigrant employee employed by him is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $2,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both.

Any employer who fails to comply with subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.

In this section —

“medical treatment” includes any service, emergency and trauma care, investigation, medicine, curative material, medical consumable, surgical implant or other item necessary for the treatment of an immigrant employee, but does not include outpatient medical treatment;

“outpatient” means any consultation, treatment or procedure that does not require an immigrant employee to be admitted to the hospital.

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