Words starting with F

financial advisory service

Defined in Financial Advisers Act 2001, s 2

“means all or any of the services specified in the Second Schedule”

Also defined in 1 other Act

financial assistance

Defined in Agency for Science, Technology and Research Act 1990, s 2

“includes assistance by way of grant, loan, loan guarantee, the purchase or guarantee of bonds, debentures, notes or other debt obligations or the purchase or acquisition of any stock, shares or other equity securities”

financial benchmark

Defined in Securities and Futures Act 2001, s 2

“means —(a)any price, rate, index or value that is —(i)determined periodically by the application (whether direct or indirect) of a formula or any other method of calculation to information or expressions of opinion concerning transactions …”

financial benefit

Defined in Gambling Control Act 2022, s 3

“means any thing of economic value, and includes property and services”

financial holding company

Defined in Banking Act 1970, s 2

“means a company designated by the Authority under section 4 of the Financial Holding Companies Act 2013”

financial institution

Defined in Government Securities Act 1992, s 2

“means any person licensed, approved, registered or regulated by the Authority, or exempted from such licensing, approval, registration or regulation, under any written law administered by the Authority”

Also defined in 6 other Acts

financial instrument

Defined in Securities and Futures Act 2001, s 2

“includes any currency, currency index, interest rate, interest rate instrument, interest rate index, securities, securities index, a group or groups of such financial instruments, and any other thing that is prescribed by the Authority by …”

financial instruments

Defined in Futures Trading Act, s 2

“includes currencies, interest rate instruments, share indices, a group or groups of share indices and such other financial instruments as the Authority may by order prescribe”

financial journalist

Defined in Financial Advisers Act 2001, s 2

“means a person who contributes advice concerning specified products, or prepares analyses or reports concerning specified products, for publication in a newspaper, but does not include such person or a person belonging to such class of …”

financial product

Defined in Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003, s 2

“includes any arrangement, transaction or contract regulated, or supplied by any person regulated, under —(a)any written law administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore;(b)the Commodity Trading Act 1992; or(c)any other written law …”

financial regulatory authority

Defined in Payment Services Act 2019, s 2

“means an authority of the foreign country or territory exercising any function that corresponds to a regulatory function of the Authority under this Act, the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act 1970 or any of the written laws set out in …”

Financial Rules

Defined in Town Councils Act 1988, s 2

“means the rules made under section 57”

Financial Sector Development Fund

Defined in Exchanges (Demutualisation and Merger) Act 1999, s 2

“means the Financial Sector Development Fund established under Part 5 of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act 1970”

financial service

Defined in Co-operative Societies Act 1979, s 2

“means receiving deposits, granting loans, or such other service of a financial nature as may be prescribed, other than in relation to the carrying on of insurance business within the meaning of the Insurance Act 1966”

financial services

Defined in Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003, s 2

“includes any services regulated, or supplied by any person regulated, under —(a)any written law administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore;(b)the Commodity Trading Act 1992; or(c)any other written law that the Minister may by …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

financial statements

Defined in Companies Act 1967, s 209A

“means the financial statements of a company required to be prepared by the Accounting Standards”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

financial transaction document

Defined in Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992, s 42

“means any document that relates to a financial transaction carried out by the institution in its capacity as a financial institution, and includes but is not limited to a document that relates to —(a)the opening or closing by a person of …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

financial transaction provider

Defined in Remote Gambling Act 2014, s 3

“means —(a)any creditor;(b)any card issuer;(c)any operator of a terminal at which an electronic fund transfer may be initiated;(d)any operator of a money transmitting business;(e)any operator or any participant in a payment system or …”

financial year

Defined in Financial Procedure Act 1966, s 2

“means a period of 12 months ending on 31 March in any year”

Also defined in 19 other Acts

financing business

Defined in Finance Companies Act 1967, s 2

“means the business of —(a)borrowing money from the public, by acceptance of deposits and issuing certificates or other documents acknowledging or evidencing indebtedness to the public and undertaking to repay the money on call or after an …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

fine

Defined in Criminal Procedure Code 2010, s 2

“means any fine or financial penalty imposed by any court upon any conviction of any offence”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

fine‑only offence

Defined in Criminal Procedure Code 2010, s 2

“means an offence that is punishable only with a fine”

finger impression

Defined in Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act 1955, s 27

“includes thumb impression and palmar impression”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

fingerprint

Defined in Passports Act 2007, s 2

“means a record (in any form and produced by any method) of the skin pattern and other physical characteristics or features of any of the individual’s thumbs or fingers”

fire and rescue management system

Defined in Amusement Rides Safety Act 2011, s 2

“means any installation, apparatus or equipment (whether integrated as part of the amusement ride or otherwise) and the protocols and instructions for the activation, operation and use thereof, which are designed to be used for …”

Fire Code

Defined in Fire Safety Act 1993, s 2

“means the Code of Practice for Fire Precautions in Buildings published by the Commissioner on the website maintained by the Force, as amended or remade from time to time, and includes any code, standard, rule, specification or provision …”

fire forensic specialist

Defined in Fire Safety Act 1993, s 2

“means an individual who is appointed under section 20 as a fire forensic specialist”

fire hazard

Defined in Fire Safety Act 1993, s 2

“means any matter or circumstance which materially increases the likelihood of fire or the danger to life or property that would result from the outbreak of fire and includes —(a)any alteration to any building in contravention of any law …”

fire hazard abatement notice

Defined in Fire Safety Act 1993, s 2

“means a written notice issued by the Commissioner under section 28(1)”

fire officer

Defined in Fire Service Act, s 2

“means any person appointed under section 3”