SINGAPORE LEGISLATION: Digest of Acts passed between 1st March 2003 and 31st August 2003 (correct as at 1st December 2003)

• Citation: (2003) 15 SAcLJ 428
• Author: EMILY TEO AND JOYCE CHNG
• Published date: 01 December 2003
• Date: 01 December 2003

Supply Act 2003

Act No. 2 of 2003

Long Title: An Act to provide for the issue from the Consolidated Fund and the Development Fund of the sums necessary to meet the estimated expenditure for the financial year 1st April 2003 to 31st March 2004 (both dates inclusive).

Passed by Parliament on: 21st March 2003

Assented to by President on: 27th March 2003

Publication date: 28th March 2003

Commencement date: 1st April 2003

Summary: A sum not exceeding $30,857,810,580 and a sum not exceeding $18,680,464,300 are authorised to be issued from the Consolidated Fund and Development Fund respectively and appropriated for the purposes of the Heads of Expenditure specified in the Schedule.

Supplementary Supply (FY 2002) Act 2003

Act No. 3 of 2003

Long Title: An Act to provide for making supplementary provision to meet additional expenditure for the financial year 1st April 2002 to 31st March 2003 (both dates inclusive).

Passed by Parliament on: 21st March 2003

Assented to by President on: 27th March 2003

Publication date: 28th March 2003

Commencement date: 28th March 2003

Summary: In accordance with Articles 148(2) and 148C(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, this Act seeks to make additional provision for the financial year 1st April 2002 to 31st March 2003 (both dates inclusive) to meet expenditure in excess of the sums authorised by the Supply Act 2002 (Act 1 of 2002) and the Supplementary Supply (FY 2002) Act 2002 (Act 42 of 2002).

Customs (Amendment) Act 2003

Act No. 4 of 2003

Long Title: An Act to amend the Customs Act (Chapter 70 of the 2001 Revised Edition) and to make consequential amendments to certain other written laws.

Passed by Parliament on: 21st March 2003

Assented to by President on: 25th March 2003

Publication date: 31st March 2003

Commencement date: 1st April 2003

Summary: This Act seeks to amend the Customs Act (Cap. 70), amongst other provisions —

1. (a) to provide for the appointment of the Director-General, Deputy Directors-General of Customs, Assistant Directors-General of Customs and other senior officers of customs by the Minister, to provide for their powers under the Act, and to enable the Director-General (with the approval of the Minister) to confer on the senior officers of customs, all or any of his powers subject to such conditions or restrictions as he thinks fit;

2. (b) to provide for the appointment of other officers of customs by the Director-General, and to allow the Director-General to confer on them all or any of the powers of a senior officer of customs;

3. (c) to enable outstanding duties, taxes, fees and other charges to be recovered by the Director-General (instead of the Minister) as a civil debt due to the Government;

4. (d) to empower the Minister to remit (in addition to the power to refund) customs duties, excise duties, taxes, fees and charges which may be payable or which may have been paid by any person;

5. (e) to clarify that the manufacture of all dutiable goods is to be licensed;

6. (f) to provide for the declaration of dutiable goods at points of entry into Singapore which have, and which do not have, the Red Channel and Green Channel system; and

7. (g) to make consequential amendments to certain other written laws.

Related Legislation: Air Navigation Act (Cap. 6), Animals and Birds Act(Cap. 7), Cinematograph Film Hire Duty Act (Cap. 40), Copyright Act (Cap. 140A), Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act (Cap. 65A), Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties Act (Cap. 65B), Criminal

Law (Temporary Provisions) Act (Cap. 67), Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act (Cap. 86), Entertainments Duty Act (Cap. 94), Free Trade Zones Act (Cap. 114), Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A), Immigration Act (Cap. 133), Income Tax Act (Cap. 134), International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act (Cap. 145), Newspaper and Printing Presses Act (Cap. 206), Postal Services Act (Cap. 237A), Registration of Criminals Act (Cap. 268), Trade Marks Act (Cap. 332), Undesirable Publications Act (Cap. 338) and Wholesale Meat and Fish Act (Cap. 349A)

Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Act 2003

Act No. 5 of 2003

Long Title: An Act to amend the Infectious Diseases Act (Chapter 137 of the 1999 Revised Edition) and to make a consequential amendment to the National Environment Agency Act 2002 (Act 4 of 2002).

Passed by Parliament on: 21st March 2003

Assented to by President on: 27th March 2003

Publication date: 31st March 2003

Commencement date: 1st April 2003

Summary: This Act seeks to amend the Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137) —

1. (a) by enlarging the definition of “infectious disease” to include certain diseases which are not specified in the First Schedule, but which, if left uninvestigated or unchecked, would result in an epidemic of that disease;

2. (b) by making it clear which provisions of the Act fall under the respective purviews of the Minister for Health and the Minister for the Environment;

3. (c) to provide that the failure on the part of a person to comply with any requirement by the Director of Medical Services (the Director) to be medically examined is an offence, and the Director can order the removal of the person to any hospital or place where he may be detained until he is free from infection;

4. (d) to provide that upon failure on the part of a person to comply with the requirement to undergo any examination or treatment, the person may be arrested without warrant and detained;

5. (e) to enable the Minister for Health to prohibit any person or class of persons from an infected area from entering Singapore, except under such conditions as he may specify;

1. (f) to enhance the Minister’s power to order the compulsory vaccination of persons in the event of an outbreak or imminent outbreak of...