Singapore legislation

Clause 18

of Charities (Amendment) Bill

Clause 18

Amendment of section 48

Section 48 of the Charities Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (c) of subsection (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:“(c)provide for the obligations, or otherwise to regulate the conduct, of any person that is given or provided with any money or other property (whether as consideration or otherwise) for or in connection with any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purpose;

(ca)provide for an electronic transactions service for any one or more of the following purposes:

(i)

for any person to submit or serve on the Commissioner electronically any application, document or information;

(ii)

for the Commissioner to serve any notice or other document on any person under this Act;

(iii)

for the Commissioner to publish or supply to any person any application, document or information;

(iv)

for any other prescribed purpose;”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsections:“(3) Regulations made for the purpose of subsection (2)(ca) may —

(a)

provide for the manner in which and the persons by which the electronic transactions service may be used;

(b)

require that any prescribed application, document or information must be submitted to or served on the Commissioner only through the electronic transactions service;

(c)

provide that any prescribed application, document, or information, submitted to a prescribed public authority in the prescribed manner, is treated as having been submitted through the electronic transactions service to the Commissioner;

(d)

provide for the circumstances and the manner for correcting any error or omission in any application, document or information submitted, served, published or supplied through the electronic transactions service;

(e)

despite the Evidence Act (Cap. 97), provide for the admissibility of electronic records, and copies and print‑outs of such records, of any application, document or information submitted, served, published or supplied through the electronic transactions service, as evidence of the facts contained in the record, copy or print‑out; and

(f)

provide for any other matter necessary or incidental to the use, maintenance or management of the electronic transactions service.(3A) Regulations made under this Act (other than section 40C) may provide that any person that contravenes the regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.”.