Singapore legislation

Clause 21

of Financial Advisers (Amendment) Bill

Clause 21

Amendment of section 69

Section 69 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) Nothing in this Part shall —

(a)

compel an advocate and solicitor to disclose or produce a privileged communication, or a document or other material containing a privileged communication, made by or to him in that capacity; or

(b)

authorise the taking of any such document or other material which is in his possession.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “refuses to” in subsection (2), the words “disclose the information or”.