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Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021 · Updated to 5 Dec 2025 · Part 1 · Preliminary

9. Meaning of “influencing Singapore governmental decisions”, etc.

(1)

For the purposes of this Act, a person undertakes an activity or engages in conduct for the purpose of influencing or seeking to influence a Singapore governmental decision if any purpose of the activity or conduct is to influence one or more of the following:

(a)

a process in respect of a Singapore governmental decision; (b)the public in relation to any aspect of a process mentioned in paragraph (a).

(2)

For the purposes of this Act, a Singapore governmental decision means an act or a policy of the Government or a public authority, such as a decision made by any of the following in the discharge of their respective functions:

(a)

the President; (b)the Cabinet or a committee of the Cabinet;

(c)

a Minister or Ministers; (d)any Ministry, department or Organ of State, but not the following: (i)the Supreme Court or any subordinate courts in the exercise of the judicial power of Singapore vested in them by the Constitution;

(ii)

a quasi‑judicial body constituted by or under any public Act in the discharge of its function of hearing and resolving disputes or conducting mediation or conciliation under that written law;

(e)

any public authority;

(f)

an individual in the course of performing his or her functions in relation to a person or an agency mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e).

(3)

A reference to a Singapore governmental decision in subsection (1) or (2) includes a decision of any kind in relation to any matter (including administrative and policy matters) whether or not the decision is formal, and whether or not the decision is final.

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