Words starting with D

Director‑General of Customs

Defined in Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999, s 2

“means the Director-General of Customs appointed under section 4(1) of the Customs Act 1960”

Director‑General, Animal Health and Welfare

Defined in Veterinary Practice Act 2026, s 2

“means the Director‑General, Animal Health and Welfare appointed under section 3(1) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965”

Director-General, Food Administration

Defined in Environmental Public Health Act 1987, s 2

“means the Director‑General, Food Administration appointed under section 3(1) of the Sale of Food Act 1973”

Also defined in 1 other Act

Director, Legal Services of the Singapore Armed Forces

Defined in Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972, s 2

“means the person appointed by the Armed Forces Council under section 82(5)(a)”

disability

Defined in Pioneer Generation and Merdeka Generation Funds Act 2014, s 2

“means disability that —(a)is attributable to intellectual, psychiatric, sensory or physical impairment or a combination of those impairments;(b)is permanent or likely to be permanent; and(c)results in a substantial need for continuing …”

disabling direction

Defined in Online Criminal Harms Act 2023, s 2

“means a direction described in section 9”

Also defined in 1 other Act

disabling order

Defined in Protection from Harassment Act 2014, s 2

“means an order made under section 15C”

disaster

Defined in Requisition of Resources Act 1985, s 3

“means any fire, explosion, earthquake, oil spill, flood, storm or other happening (whether or not attributable to an act by enemy or to any warlike act) that causes or may cause loss of life or injury or destruction of or damage to …”

discharge

Defined in Prevention of Pollution ofthe Sea Act 1990, s 2

“means any release howsoever caused from a ship, place or thing and includes any escape, disposal, spilling, leaking, pumping, emitting or emptying but does not include —(a)release of harmful substances directly arising from the …”

discharge or escape

Defined in Merchant Shipping (Civil Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution) Act 1998, s 23

“means the discharge or escape of oil from the ship”

discharge pipe

Defined in Public Utilities Act 2001, s 2

“means a pipe that enables any sewage or sullage water to be conveyed from a sanitary appliance or floor trap to a drain-line”

disciplinary barrack

Defined in Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972, s 2

“means any premises or place set apart by the Armed Forces Council for the purposes of persons serving sentences of special detention in a disciplinary barrack”

disciplinary case

Defined in Veterinary Practice Act 2026, s 2

“means a complaint made against, or any information provided about, a registered veterinarian under Part 5, and, if an interim suspension order is made against the registered veterinarian in relation to the complaint or information …”

Disciplinary Committee

Defined in Accountants Act, s 2

“means the Disciplinary Committee appointed under section 31”

Also defined in 6 other Acts

disciplinary offence

Defined in Police Force Act 2004, s 2

“means a service offence specified in the Schedule”

disciplinary officer

Defined in Civil Defence Act 1986, s 2

“means a junior disciplinary officer or a senior disciplinary officer designated as such under Part 7”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

Disciplinary Panel

Defined in Estate Agents Act 2010, s 3

“means the panel appointed under section 51(1)”

disciplinary penalty

Defined in Public Sector (Governance) Act 2018, s 13

“means dismissal from the office of chief executive, reduction in grade, financial penalty, stoppage of increment or withdrawal of any employment benefit because of misconduct”

Disciplinary Tribunal

Defined in Legal Profession Act 1966, s 2

“means a Disciplinary Tribunal appointed by the Chief Justice under section 90(1)”

Also defined in 1 other Act

disclose

Defined in Immigration Act 1959, s 36A

“includes providing access to the identifying information or passenger information”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

disclosure framework

Defined in Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004, s 26

“means the disclosure framework set out in the Sixth Schedule”

disease

Defined in National Registry of Diseases Act 2007, s 2

“means any physical or mental ailment, disorder, defect or morbid condition (whether of sudden onset or gradual development), or the recurrence of that ailment, disorder, defect or morbid condition”

Also defined in 4 other Acts

disease-bearing insect

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

“includes every mosquito and house-fly and any insect carrying or causing, or capable of carrying or causing, any disease of human beings or domestic animals, and includes the eggs, larvae and pupae of such insect”

diseased

Defined in Agricultural Pests Act, s 2

“means attacked by or affected with any pests”

Also defined in 1 other Act

dismiss

Defined in Employment Act 1968, s 2

“means to terminate the contract of service between an employer and an employee at the employer’s initiative, with or without notice and for cause or otherwise, and includes the resignation of an employee if the employee can show, on a …”

dispensing

Defined in Fire Safety Act 1993, s 77

“means transferring any class of petroleum or any flammable material from one container to any other container or containers for the purpose of distribution, through hose, pipe or by any other means (but not including a licensed pipeline) …”

disposal

Defined in Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act 1997, s 2

“means an operation specified in Annex IV to the Basel Convention”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

disposal facility

Defined in Environmental Public Health Act 1987, s 2

“includes a recycling facility, a refuse disposal ground, any place used for the deposit of refuse or waste, an incinerator or any plant, machinery or apparatus used for the processing or treatment of refuse or waste”

dispose

Defined in Resource Sustainability Act 2019, s 2

“means to dispose of the thing as waste”

disposition

Defined in Estate Agents Act 2010, s 3

“means an act by a person whereby an interest the person has in or over a property is affected, and “acquisition”, in relation to a property, is to be construed accordingly”

Also defined in 2 other Acts