Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of Income Tax (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

Amendment of section 8

Section 8 of the Income Tax Act (called in this Act the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “a notice may be served” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “the Comptroller may serve a notice, direction or other document”;

(b)

by deleting paragraph (c) of subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:“(c)through the electronic service if the notice, direction or other document is permitted to be served in this way by regulations made under section 8A(13)(ba) and (13A).”;

(c)

by deleting subsection (3A) and substituting the following subsection:“(3A) Where a notice, direction or other document is served on any person through the electronic service under subsection (1)(c), the notice, direction or other document is taken to have been served at the time when an electronic record of it enters the person’s account with the electronic service.”;

(d)

by deleting subsection (6) and substituting the following subsection:“(6) Where a notice in subsection (4) or (5) may be served on a person through the electronic service under subsection (1)(c), the notice need not be signed if it is served on the person by transmitting an electronic record of the notice to the person’s account with the electronic service.”; and

(e)

by inserting, immediately after the word “notices” in the section heading, the word “, etc.”.

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