Singapore legislation
Clause 30
of Legislative Assembly (Privileges, Immunities and Powers) Ordinance
Clause 30
Offences
No person shall —
wilfully fail or refuse to obey any rule or order of the Assembly or a committee, or any order of the Speaker duly made under the Standing Orders or this Ordinance;
fail without just cause to comply with any summons issued in terms of section 13 or 25 of this Ordinance;
assault, hinder, obstruct or insult the Speaker or any member coming to or going from the Assembly on account of his conduct in the Assembly or of anything done or said by him in the Assembly;
endeavour to compel any member by force, insult or menace to declare himself in favour of or against any proposition or matter pending or expected to be brought before the Assembly;
assault, threaten, insult, interfere with, obstruct or resist any officer of the Assembly while in the execution of his duty;
threaten or send a threatening letter to the Speaker or a member or challenge him to a fight on account of his conduct in the Assembly or of anything done or said by him in the Assembly;
publish any statement, whether in writing or otherwise, which falsely or scandalously defames, or which reflects on the character of, the Speaker or any member touching on his conduct in the Assembly or anything done or said by him in the Assembly;
publish wilfully any false or perverted report or any writing containing a gross or scandalous misrepresentation of any debate or proceedings of the Assembly, or of any speech of a member in the Assembly;
publish any report of any debate or proceedings of a committee or of any evidence given or any documents presented to such committee or extracts from such documents, before such committee has presented its report to the Assembly;
publish any report or statement purporting to be a report of any debate or proceedings of the Assembly in any case where such proceedings have been conducted after exclusion by order of the Assembly of strangers or officers of the Assembly or where such publication has been expressly prohibited by order of the Assembly;
publish any statement, whether in writing or otherwise, which falsely or scandalously defames the proceedings or the character of the Assembly;
create or join in any disturbance in the Assembly or in the precincts or vicinity thereof while the Assembly or a committee is sitting;
refuse to be examined before or to answer any lawful or relevant question put by, or to produce any paper, book, record or document in his possession or under his control required by, the Assembly or any committee unless the refusal is based on privilege or is excused;
prevaricate or otherwise misconduct himself as a witness before the Assembly or a committee;
present to the Assembly or a committee any false, untrue, fabricated or falsified document with intent to deceive the Assembly or a committee;
tamper with, deter, threaten, beguile or in any way unduly influence any witness in regard to his evidence before the Assembly or a committee;
whether or not he has been sworn or has made an affirmation, wilfully make a false answer to any question material to the subject of inquiry put during examination before the Assembly or a committee.