Singapore legislation

Section 33

of Singapore Food Agency Act 2019

Section 33

Public servants

Without affecting sections 20 and 21 of the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018, every delegate and subdelegate of the Agency —

(a)

is taken to be a public servant for the purposes of the Penal Code 1871; and

(b)

is, in relation to his or her administration, assessment, collection and enforcement of payment of —

(i)

any financial penalty imposed under any written law administered by the Agency; or

(ii)

any composition sum collected under this Act or any other written law administered by the Agency,taken to be public officers for the purposes of the Financial Procedure Act 1966; and section 20 of that Act applies to each of these persons even though they are not or were not in the employment of the Government.