Section 33
Public servants
of Singapore Food Agency Act 2019
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Section 33
Without affecting sections 20 and 21 of the Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018, every delegate and subdelegate of the Agency —
(a)
is taken to be a public servant for the purposes of the Penal Code 1871; and
(b)
is, in relation to his or her administration, assessment, collection and enforcement of payment of —
(i)
any financial penalty imposed under any written law administered by the Agency; or
(ii)
any composition sum collected under this Act or any other written law administered by the Agency,taken to be public officers for the purposes of the Financial Procedure Act 1966; and section 20 of that Act applies to each of these persons even though they are not or were not in the employment of the Government.