Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Goods and Services Tax Voucher Fund Bill

Clause 3

Establishment of Goods and Services Tax Voucher Fund

(1)

There shall be established a fund to be called the Goods and Services Tax Voucher Fund which shall be held, managed and administered as a Government fund.

(2)

There shall be paid into the Fund —

(a)

all moneys from time to time appropriated from the Consolidated Fund and authorised to be paid into the Fund by any written law;

(b)

all other revenues of Singapore allocated by any written law to the Fund;

(c)

all gifts and donations given or made by any person or organisation to the Government for the purposes of the Fund; and

(d)

all investments out of moneys in the Fund authorised to be made by any written law and the proceeds of any such investment, including the net income from such investments.

(3)

The Fund shall be regarded as comprising public moneys for the purposes of any other written law.

(4)

For the purposes of subsection (2)(d), the net income from investments shall be the amount ascertained by adding to, or deducting from, the income received from investments of moneys in the Fund any profit derived or loss sustained, as the case may be, from the realisation of such investments.

(5)

The Financial Procedure Act (Cap. 109) shall apply to the Fund to the extent that it is not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Act.

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