Women’s Charter 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Protection Against Family Violence
59D. Family violence notifications to protectors, etc.
Last amended by an amending law of 2023.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
If a person (Z) knows or has reason to suspect that another person has experienced, is experiencing or is at risk of family violence, Z may make a family violence notification to any of the following persons:
a protector;
a police officer;
a person authorised by the Director‑General to receive the notification;
a person falling within a prescribed class of persons.
A family violence notification may describe the facts and circumstances on which Z’s knowledge or suspicion is based.
A person who makes a family violence notification —
is not, by virtue of doing so, to be regarded in any proceedings before any court of law or tribunal or in any other respect —
to have breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or
to have departed from any accepted form of professional conduct; and
to the extent the person has acted in good faith and with reasonable care, incurs no civil or criminal liability in relation to the notification or the provision of any information contained in the notification.
A person appearing as a witness in any proceedings in any court of law or tribunal or before a person authorised by law to hear evidence must not be compelled —
to disclose the identity of a person who has made a family violence notification, or any information likely to lead to the disclosure of the person’s identity; or
to produce any report or document, or any part of a report or document, that is likely to identify, a person who has made a family violence notification.
Terms defined in this Act
Director‑General
Defined · s 2“Director‑General”, except in Part 7, means the Director‑General of Social Welfare and includes any person who is authorised by the Director‑General to perform any of the duties or exercise any of the powers of the Director‑General under this Act;
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