Singapore legislation
Clause 5
Clause 5
Amendment of section 5
Section 5 of the Statistics Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) It shall be lawful for the Chief Statistician or the director of a research and statistics unit to issue a requisition to any person or the occupier of any premises to furnish particulars and supply information to him, for the purpose of obtaining data for statistical purposes, and every such person or occupier is bound to furnish the particulars and supply the information to the best of his knowledge and belief.”; and
(b)
by inserting, immediately after the word “addressed” in subsection (2)(b), the words “or the occupier of any premises, as the case may be,”.