Passports Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Offences Relating to Singapore Passports and Travel Documents
35. Interpretation of this Part
Feedback & supportIn this Part, unless the context otherwise requires —
“gain” means —
a gain in property or a supply of services (whether temporary or permanent); or
an opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration or to gain a financial advantage otherwise than by way of remuneration;
“loss” means —
a loss of property or a supply of services (whether temporary or permanent); or
any deprivation of an opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration or an opportunity to gain a financial advantage otherwise than by way of remuneration;
“public duty” means a function that is given to —
a public officer;
an employee or a member of a public authority, board or tribunal established by or under written law for the purposes of a public function; or
a contractor who exercises a function or performs work for the Government or public authority mentioned in paragraph (b),as such, and includes every person who is in actual possession of the situation of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), whatever legal defect there may be in the firstmentioned person’s right to hold that situation.
A person is treated for the purposes of this Part as making a false Singapore passport, a false Singapore travel document or a false foreign travel document if the person alters a document so as to make it false in any respect (whether or not it was already a false document before the alteration or is false in some other respect apart from that alteration).
Singapore passport
“Singapore passport” means —(a)a Singapore ordinary passport;(b)a Singapore diplomatic passport; or(c)a Singapore official passport,issued by or on behalf of the Government under this Act;
In this Part, any reference to inducing a person to accept a false document as genuine, or a copy of a false document as a copy of a genuine one, includes a reference to inducing a machine to respond to the document or copy as if it were a genuine document or copy of a genuine one.
document
“document” includes —(a)any paper or other material where there is writing;(b)any paper or other material on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations that are —(i)capable of being given a meaning by persons qualified to interpret them; or(ii)capable of being responded to by a computer, a machine or an electronic device; or(c)any article or material from which information is capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of any other article or device;