Singapore legislation
Section 61
Section 61
Information as to air transport undertakings and use of customs aerodromes
(1)
The Minister may make regulations —
requiring any person —
who carries on the business of carrying passengers or goods in aircraft for hire or reward on any journeys or classes of journeys (whether beginning and ending at the same point or at different points) that may be specified in the regulations; or
who is the holder of a licence in respect of a customs aerodrome,to provide to the authorities that may be specified in the regulations any information relating to the use of aircraft for the purpose of the person’s business and to the persons employed in connection with that use, or (as the case may be) relating to the use of the aerodrome and to the persons employed in aircraft arriving at the aerodrome or departing therefrom, that may be prescribed by the regulations;
requiring the owner, or the pilot or other person in charge, of any aircraft arriving at, or departing from, any customs aerodrome to provide to the holder of the licence in respect of that aerodrome any information that may be necessary to enable the holder of the licence to comply with any of the provisions of the regulations that relate to the holder of the licence;
prescribing the times at which, and the form and manner in which, any information required under the regulations is to be provided,except that a person carrying on such a business as is mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) is not required to provide information relating to the use of aircraft on journeys wholly outside Singapore, or relating to persons exclusively employed outside Singapore, unless the person carrying on the business is either a citizen of Singapore or of a Commonwealth country or a body corporate incorporated under the law of Singapore.
(2)
Regulations made under this section may provide for imposing on any person who contravenes any provision of the regulations such penalties (not exceeding a fine of $500 and a further fine of $100 for every day during which the contravention continues after conviction) as may be specified in the regulations.
(3)
Any information with respect to any particular undertaking which has been obtained by virtue of regulations made under this section must not, without the consent of the person carrying on that undertaking, be disclosed otherwise than in connection with the execution of such regulations, and if any person discloses any such information in contravention of this subsection, the person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.
(4)
Nothing in subsection (3) applies to the disclosure of any information for the purposes of any legal proceedings which may be taken by virtue of this subsection or of regulations made under this section, or for the purpose of any report of those proceedings, but, save as aforesaid, the restriction imposed by this subsection, in relation to any legal proceedings (including arbitrations), extends so as to prohibit and prevent any person who is in possession of any such information so obtained from disclosing, and from being required by any court or arbitrator to disclose that information (whether as a witness or otherwise) except with the consent of the person carrying on the undertaking to which the information relates.
(5)
In this section, “customs aerodrome” means an aerodrome for the time being appointed as a place of landing and departure of aircraft for the purposes of any written law relating to customs.[15