Singapore legislation
Clause 16
Clause 16
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 such journeys or classes of journeys (whether beginning and ending at the same point or ending at the same point or at different points) as may be specified in the regulations; or
who is the holder of a licence in respect of a customs aerodrome,to furnish to such authorities as may be specified in the regulations such information relating to the use of aircraft for the purpose of his said 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 thereat or departing therefrom, as 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 furnish to the holder of the licence in respect of that aerodrome such information as may be necessary to enable the holder of the said licence to comply with such of the provisions of the regulations as relate to him;
prescribing the times at which, and the form and manner in which, any information required under the regulations is to be furnished:Provided that a person carrying on such a business as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) shall not be required to furnish 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 or fails to comply with any provision of the regulations such penalties (not exceeding a fine of five hundred dollars and a further fine of one hundred dollars for every day during which the contravention or non-compliance continues after conviction therefor) as may be specified in the regulations.
(3)
No information with respect to any particular undertaking which has ben obtained by virtue of regulations made under this section shall, 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, he shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(4)
Nothing in subsection (3) shall apply 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 any such proceedings, but, save as aforesaid, the restriction imposed by this subsection shall, in relation to any legal proceedings (including arbitrations), extend 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 the expression “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.