Gambling Control Act 2022 · Updated to 21 Sep 2026 · Part 9 · Enforcement
110. Power to obtain information
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
The powers in this section may be exercised only in relation to any of the following: (a)any licensee or class licensee; (b)any gambling service agent of a licensee;
licensee
“licensee” means a person to whom a licence is granted under this Act but does not include a class licensee;
any employee or former employee of a licensee, class licensee or gambling service agent of a licensee;
an individual who is or was a responsible executive of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b);
an individual who is or was a category 1 key officer of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b); (f)any individual found on any premises entered into under section 108;
any driver, pilot or other person in charge of the conveyance, or a person in possession of the conveyance, stopped or detained under section 109.
A police officer, an authorised officer or a compliance officer may by written notice require any person mentioned in subsection (1) to provide, within a reasonable period specified in the notice, and in such form and manner as may be specified in the notice, all documents and all information or material which —
authorised officer
“authorised officer”, in relation to any provision of this Act, means an individual who is appointed under section 122 to perform any function or exercise any power under that provision;
relate to any matter which the Authority, police officer, authorised officer or compliance officer considers necessary for any of the purposes of section 103(1); and
are —
within the knowledge of that person; or
in the custody or under the control of the person.
The power to require a person mentioned in subsection (1) to provide any document or any information or material under subsection (2) includes the power —
document
“document” means any thing in which information or material of any description is recorded;
to require that person to produce or grant access to the document or the information or material; (b)to require that person to provide an explanation of the document or the information or material;
if the document or the information or material is not produced, to require the person to state, to the best of the knowledge and belief of that person where it is; and
if the information or material is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the information or material to be made available to a police officer, an authorised officer or a compliance officer concerned in legible form.
A police officer, an authorised officer or a compliance officer (as the case may be) is entitled without payment to keep for the purposes of section 103(1) any document or information or material, or any copy or extract thereof, provided to him or her under subsection (2).
compliance officer
“compliance officer” means an individual who is appointed under section 123 as a compliance officer;
Terms defined in s 3
authorised officer
Defined · s 3“authorised officer”, in relation to any provision of this Act, means an individual who is appointed under section 122 to perform any function or exercise any power under that provision;
Authority
Defined · s 3“Authority” means the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore, which is the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore continued and renamed under section 3 of the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore Act 2022;
category 1 key officer
Defined · s 3“category 1 key officer”, in relation to an applicant or a licensee, means an individual who is within a class of key officers prescribed to be category 1 key officers of such an applicant or a licensee;
class licensee
Defined · s 3“class licensee” means a person to which a class licence applies;
compliance officer
Defined · s 3“compliance officer” means an individual who is appointed under section 123 as a compliance officer;
conveyance
Defined · s 3“conveyance” means any aircraft, train, vehicle, vessel or other mode of transport, whether of passengers or goods or both;
document
Defined · s 3“document” means any thing in which information or material of any description is recorded;
gambling service agent
Defined · s 3“gambling service agent”, in relation to a licensee or class licensee, means a person who is, under a gambling agency agreement, appointed as an agent of the licensee or class licensee in relation to any gambling service that —(a)is provided by the licensee or class licensee; and (b)is specified in that agreement;
grant
Defined · s 3“granted” or “grant”, for a licence or gambling venue approval, includes —(a)granted or grant on renewal; or (b)treated as granted under the Second Schedule;
information or material
Defined · s 3“information or material” means information or material in any form, such as (but not limited to) —(a)oral, audible, written, electronic or digital form; (b)words or symbols, or visual, pictorial or graphic form (for example, an anthropomorphic or a humanlike depiction), and whether still or moving; and(c)3 or 2 dimensional form,and includes information or material in any combination of forms;
licensee
Defined · s 3“licensee” means a person to whom a licence is granted under this Act but does not include a class licensee;
premises
Defined · s 3“premises” means —(a)any space, whether built on or not and whether underground or underwater, or any part of such a space; or(b)any building or structure, whether situated underground or underwater, or any part of a building or structure or place, but does not include a conveyance;
responsible executive
Defined · s 3“responsible executive”, in relation to an applicant or a licensee or class licensee, means an officer thereof who is —(a)in the case of a corporation, a director, chief executive, general manager or a person in a position analogous to any of those offices;(b)in the case of a corporation whose affairs are managed by its members, a member designated by those members to be the responsible executive of the corporation;(c)in the case of a partnership (including a limited partnership), a partner of the partnership; or(d)in the case of a society or unincorporated association (other than a partnership), a president, secretary or treasurer or a person in a position analogous to that of a president, secretary or treasurer,and includes any person carrying out the duties of any such office referred to in paragraph (a), (c) or (d) if the office is vacant;
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