Singapore legislation
Regulation 20
of Transport Safety Investigations (Aviation Occurrences) Regulations 2023
Regulation 20
Safety recommendations
Subregulation 1
The Director may, at any stage of an investigation, give to the persons mentioned in paragraph (2), in a duly dated written communication accompanied by a safety recommendation containing any preventive action that the Director or investigator‑in‑charge considers necessary to be taken promptly to enhance aviation safety.
Subregulation 2
The persons to whom a safety recommendation under paragraph (1) may be given are as follows:
any persons in Singapore or in another Contracting State who, in the opinion of the Director, are most fitted to implement the safety recommendation, which may be a person, an unincorporated association, or a public authority or public officer;
the ICAO, when ICAO documents are involved.
Subregulation 3
In addition, the Director or an investigator‑in‑charge having charge of an investigation into an aviation occurrence must give to the ICAO a safety recommendation under paragraph (1) if it is a safety recommendation of global concern.
Subregulation 4
The Director must inform, in a duly dated written communication, the appropriate foreign authority of a Contracting State of any safety recommendation in paragraph (1) given to those persons in paragraph (2)(a) outside Singapore.
Subregulation 5
For the purposes of section 22(2) of the Act, any person in Singapore to whom a safety recommendation is communicated under paragraph (1) must within 90 days after receiving the safety recommendation —
take that safety recommendation into consideration and, where appropriate, act upon it; and
send to the Director —
full details of the measures (if any) that the person has taken or proposes to take to implement the safety recommendation and, if such measures are to be implemented, the timetable for securing that implementation; or
a full explanation as to why no measures will be taken to implement the safety recommendation.
Subregulation 6
Where a safety recommendation has been forwarded to the Director by another Contracting State, the Director must, within 90 days after receiving the safety recommendation from that Contracting State, notify that Contracting State of the preventive action taken or under consideration or the reasons as to why no action will be taken.