Employment Act · 2026 Revised Edition · Part · Immigrant Employees
113A. Medical insurance
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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.
employer
“employer” means any person who employs another person under a contract of service and includes — (a) the Government, in respect of such categories, classes or descriptions of public officers or employees of the Government as are declared by the Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, to be employees for the purposes of this Act; (b) any statutory body; (c) the duly authorised agent or manager of the employer; (d) the person who owns or is carrying on or for the time being responsible for the management of the profession, business, trade or work in which the employee is engaged;
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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
Employment 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.
immigrant employee
“immigrant employee” means any employee who is normally resident outside Brunei Darussalam who has come to Brunei Darussalam for the purpose of performing work in Brunei Darussalam;
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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Terms defined in s 2
employer
Defined · s 2“employer” means any person who employs another person under a contract of service and includes — (a) the Government, in respect of such categories, classes or descriptions of public officers or employees of the Government as are declared by the Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, to be employees for the purposes of this Act; (b) any statutory body; (c) the duly authorised agent or manager of the employer; (d) the person who owns or is carrying on or for the time being responsible for the management of the profession, business, trade or work in which the employee is engaged;
immigrant employee
Defined · s 2“immigrant employee” means any employee who is normally resident outside Brunei Darussalam who has come to Brunei Darussalam for the purpose of performing work in Brunei Darussalam;
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