Words starting with A

assessment

Defined in Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board Act 2003, s 2

“means any test, examination or other method of assessing the level of proficiency, aptitude, skill, knowledge or understanding of a person in any subject matter, other than any of the national examinations”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

assessor

Defined in Care Shield Life and Long-Term Care Act 2019, s 2

“means an assessor approved by the Minister under section 17(1) to conduct, and report on, disability assessments”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

asset

Defined in Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004, s 25A

“means property of any kind (whether tangible or intangible, whether arising from, accruing under, created or evidenced by or the subject of, an instrument or otherwise and whether actual or contingent) of the transferor on the eve of the …”

Also defined in 11 other Acts

asset-backed token

Defined in Precious Stones and Precious Metals (Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing) Act 2019, s 2

“means a token, certificate or other instrument backed by one or more precious metals, precious stones or precious products that entitles the holder to the precious metal, precious stone or precious product, or part of it, but excludes …”

assignee

Defined in COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020, s 41

“includes a successor in title of that person”

assignment

Defined in Trade Marks Act, s 2

“means assignment by act of the parties concerned”

Assistant Commissioner

Defined in Cybersecurity Act 2018, s 2

“means any Assistant Commissioner of Cybersecurity appointed under section 4(1)(b)”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

Assistant Commissioner of Public Health

Defined in Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act, s 2

“mean respectively the Commissioner of Public Health, a Deputy Commissioner of Public Health and an Assistant Commissioner of Public Health appointed under section 4(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act”

assistant licensing officer

Defined in Cybersecurity Act 2018, s 2

“means any assistant licensing officer appointed under section 25(2)”

Also defined in 1 other Act

assistant manager

Defined in Railways Act 1905, s 2

“means an assistant to the general manager or manager of a railway”

Assistant Registrar

Defined in Co-operative Societies Act 1979, s 2

“means an Assistant Registrar of Co‑operative Societies appointed under section 3(1)”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

Assistant Registration Officer

Defined in Parliamentary Elections Act 1954, s 2

“mean respectively the Registration Officer and an Assistant Registration Officer appointed under section 3”

assisting officer

Defined in Building and Construction Authority Act 1999, s 27

“means a public officer or an employee of a public authority who is not a police officer, an officer of customs or an immigration officer, but who has been authorised by the Authority by name to assist an enforcement officer”

associate

Defined in Banking Act 1970, s 55Q

“has the meaning given by section 48AA(5), with each reference to the first entity replaced with a reference to the merchant bank”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

associate member

Defined in Singapore Tourism Board Act 1963, s 2

“means an associate member of the Board appointed under section 6”

associate with

Defined in Organised Crime Act 2015, s 2

“means —(a)to be in habitual company with; or(b)to habitually communicate with by any means (including by post, fax, telephone, email or any other form of electronic communication)”

Association

Defined in Boy Scouts Association Act 1926, s 2

“means the Boy Scouts Association incorporated under the Royal Charter granted on 4 January 1912”

Also defined in 5 other Acts

association of accountants

Defined in Accountants Act, s 2

“means any institute, society, association or other body of accountants recognised as such by the Society”

assurance

Defined in Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967, s 3

“includes any transfer, lease, charge, mortgage, transmission application or any other application for vesting made under this Act”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

assurance company

Defined in Policies of Assurance Act 1867, s 7

“means and includes every corporation, association, society, or company now or hereafter carrying on the business of assuring lives, or survivorships, either alone or in conjunction with any other object or objects.”

assurance fund

Defined in Land Titles Act, s 4

“means the assurance fund constituted under section 134”

Also defined in 1 other Act

assurance plan

Defined in Boundaries and Survey Maps Act 1998, s 2

“means any plan showing approximate boundaries or dimensions and areas for the purpose of identifying land which has not been surveyed to the Chief Surveyor’s satisfaction but is required to be surveyed under the provisions of any written …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

asymmetric cryptosystem

Defined in Electronic Transactions Act, s 2

“means a system capable of generating a secure key pair, consisting of a private key for creating a digital signature, and a public key to verify the digital signature”

at work

Defined in Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006, s 4

“means —(a)in relation to an employee, all times when the employee is performing work in connection with any trade, business, profession or undertaking carried on by his or her employer, wherever that work is carried out;(b)in relation to a …”

attachment of earnings order

Defined in Women’s Charter 1961, s 76

“means an order by a court requiring the person to whom the order in question is directed (being a person appearing to the court to be a respondent’s employer) to make payments in satisfaction of the order out of the earnings falling to be …”

attend

Defined in Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966, s 2

“includes the appearance by any person using any electronic means of communication permitted by the Syariah Court, an Appeal Board, a Kadi or a Naib Kadi”

attorney

Defined in Land Titles Act, s 129

“means any person appointed by an instrument under seal to act as the agent for or on behalf of a principal in relation to transactions with registered land, whether the agent is called attorney, receiver, broker, factor or otherwise, and …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

Attorney‑General

Defined in Interpretation Act 1965, s 2

“means the Attorney‑General of Singapore and in relation to any function, power or duty of the Attorney‑General, includes a Deputy Attorney‑General so assigned by the Attorney‑General to perform that function, power or duty”

audio-visual item

Defined in Copyright Act, s 102

“means a sound recording, a cinematograph film, a sound broadcast, a television broadcast or a cable programme. [Aust. 1968, s. 100A]”

audiovisual recording

Defined in Criminal Procedure Code 2010, s 2

“means an aggregate of visual images and sounds embodied in a thing, so as to be capable, by the use of that thing, of being produced electronically and shown as a moving picture with associated sounds”