Section 3

any member of the Singapore Police Force in the exercise of his functions as a police officer;

any member of the Singapore Armed Forces in the exercise of his functions as such member;

any officer or employee of the Government in the exercise of his functions as such officer or employee; and

any Auxiliary Police Force created under the provisions of the Police Force Act [Cap. 235] or any officer or employee thereof in the exercise of his functions as such officer or employee,to hold a licence.

any solicitor acting in the ordinary course of his profession or any solicitor’s clerk in the ordinary course of his employer’s profession;

any person bona fide carrying on the business of insurance or of an insurance adjustment agency or any employee or agent of such a person in the exercise of his functions as such employee or agent;

any person employed to do any investigation work for one employer (such employer not being a private investigator) in respect of investigation work done for that employer arising out of the functions or business exercised or carried on by that employer; or

any person who is employed by the holder of a private investigator’s licence to assist the latter in his business as a private investigator,to hold a private investigator’s licence.