Air Navigation Act 1966 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Regulatory Framework for Safety in Aviation
47. Limits to disclosure of aviation safety matter reported voluntarily
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Subject to subsection (4) —
a report of an aviation safety matter made by a person (called in this section the reporter) to any designated person in accordance with the voluntary reporting rules, or any evidence of the contents of such a report; and
the fact that such a report of an aviation safety matter was made by the reporter to any designated person,are not admissible in evidence against the reporter in any administrative proceedings before any tribunal in Singapore, any civil proceedings, or any criminal proceedings before any court other than criminal proceedings for an offence under section 86.
A person is not entitled to take disciplinary action against the person’s employee by using information derived from a report of an aviation safety matter made by the employee to a designated person in accordance with the voluntary reporting rules.
aviation safety matter
“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 —(a)safety matter within the meaning given by section 29;(b)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(c)data sets that are relevant to aviation safety management,but does not include excluded information;
A person who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.
A tribunal is not entitled to make a decision of an administrative character (whether or not in the exercise of a discretion) under any written law against a reporter using information derived from a report of an aviation safety matter made by the reporter to a designated person in accordance with the voluntary reporting rules.
designated person
“designated person” means a person designated in voluntary reporting rules for the purposes of the voluntary reporting scheme established by those rules;
To avoid doubt, this section does not prevent the use of information derived from a source that is not a report of an aviation safety matter made to any designated person in accordance with the voluntary reporting rules.
voluntary reporting rules
“voluntary reporting rules” means rules made under section 46;
In this section, “tribunal” includes any person or body of persons constituted and vested by or under any written law to make a decision of an administrative character.[12B