Singapore legislation
Regulation 3
Regulation 3
Licensing requirements
Subregulation 1
No person shall, without a licence, display or cause or permit to be displayed outdoors, whether on the exterior surface of any building or on any part of any premises, or on any free-standing advertising structure —
any advertisement, animated billboard, balloon sign or skysign;
any single signboard that has an area exceeding 5 square metres or a series of related signboards that together have an aggregate area that exceeds 5 square metres;
any directional sign relating to any facility for disabled persons, carpark, taxi stand or other public facility with an area exceeding 2 square metres;
any one directional sign relating to a business or profession carried on in any premises with an area exceeding 2 square metres; and
any second or subsequent directional sign relating to a business or profession carried on in any premises.
Subregulation 2
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a licence shall not be required —
for any signboard exhibited or caused or permitted to be exhibited by —
any religious body;
any Government-aided school; or
any hospital, clinic, dispensary, nursing or welfare home or hospice, run by any charity (whether registered under the Charities Act (Cap. 37) or otherwise);
for any advertisement or signboard exhibited —
on any stall within a hawker centre, food centre or market; or
in any underpass, tunnel or mass rapid transit station; or
for the exhibition of any poster, banner or advertising in respect of any parliamentary election or presidential election in accordance with the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 218) or the Presidential Elections Act (Cap. 240A).
Subregulation 3
In this regulation —
Definition
“exterior surface” means the outside surface of the building and includes —
any surface that is intended to function as an external wall; and
any surface that is intended to function as an external door;
Definition
“outdoors” includes any roofed space that is not fully enclosed on all sides and which facilitates the flow of general pedestrian traffic or is accessible to the public.