45. Interpretation of this Division

In this Division, unless the context otherwise requires —“aviation safety matter” means any information about any conduct, transaction, process, practice, occurrence, circumstance or matter that affects, or might affect, aviation safety, and includes —

safety matter within the meaning given by section 29;

any facts, statistics or other data about any conduct, transaction, process, practice, occurrence, circumstance or matter affecting, or that might affect, aviation safety, and which is in a form that is capable of being communicated, analysed or processed (whether by an individual or a computer or other automated methods); and

data sets that are relevant to aviation safety management,but does not include excluded information;“competent authority” means the person designated by the voluntary reporting rules as the competent authority for the purpose of section 48(4) in respect of each voluntary and confidential reporting scheme established by those rules;“excluded information” means —

all statements (whether oral or in writing) obtained from persons by an investigator, or a staff member or consultant of the Transport Safety Investigation Bureau of Singapore in the course of an investigation or a preliminary assessment (including any record of such a statement) under the Transport Safety Investigations Act 2018;

all information recorded by an investigator, or a staff member or consultant of the Transport Safety Investigation Bureau of Singapore in the course of an investigation or a preliminary assessment under the Transport Safety Investigations Act 2018;

all communications with a person involved in the operation of an aircraft that is or was the subject of an investigation or a preliminary assessment under the Transport Safety Investigations Act 2018;

all medical or private information regarding persons (including deceased persons) involved in an accident or incident that is being or has been investigated, or the subject of a preliminary assessment, under the Transport Safety Investigations Act 2018;

all records of the analysis of information or evidential material acquired in the course of an investigation or a preliminary assessment under the Transport Safety Investigations Act 2018 (such as but not limited to flight recorder information), including any opinion expressed by a person in the analysis of such information or evidential material;

any information about any conduct, transaction, process, practice, occurrence, circumstance or matter that is prescribed by the voluntary reporting rules as excluded information;

any reportable safety matter within the meaning given by section 29;

any information about any contravention of any provision of this Part which is not required by section 29 to be reported;

any matter showing a serious and imminent threat to a person’s health or life; or

an act of unlawful interference within the meaning of section 63;“protected information” means —

information that is contained in a report of an aviation safety matter made under any voluntary reporting rules;

information that is obtained or generated by a designated person in the course of considering a report of an aviation safety matter made under any voluntary reporting rules;

records of the analysis of information contained in a report of an aviation safety matter made under any voluntary reporting rules, including opinions expressed by a person in that analysis; or

information about any other aviation safety matter that is obtained or generated by the Authority in the performance of its functions or duties under this Act or any other written law.[12