Words starting with I

import approval

Defined in Small Motorised Vehicles (Safety) Act 2020, s 2

“means an import approval under section 5(2)(a)”

import permit

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

“means a Basel import permit or a special import permit”

Also defined in 1 other Act

import proposal

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

“means a proposal to import hazardous or other waste and to deal with it in Singapore”

importer

Defined in Customs Act 1960, s 3

“includes and applies to any owner or other person for the time being possessed of or beneficially interested in any goods at and from the time of importation thereof until the goods are duly removed from customs control”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

improve

Defined in Cross-Border Railways Act 2018, s 2

“includes renewing the railway infrastructure or railway asset”

improvement contribution

Defined in Housing and Development Act 1959, s 75

“means the costs in respect of general upgrading works, specified upgrading works, special upgrading works or flat upgrading works that are recoverable by the Board from the owner of a flat or a Town Council under section 78(2) or (3), as …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

improvised shelter

Defined in Civil Defence Shelter Act 1997, s 2

“means any building or part thereof which has been designated by the Commissioner under section 7 as a shelter for the use of any person needing to take refuge therein during a state of emergency”

in electronic form

Defined in Copyright Act 2021, s 7

“means in a form usable only by electronic means”

in or near any public road

Defined in Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act 1906, s 2

“includes all places in the public road, and all places within 9 metres of it not being effectually separated from and hidden from the road by a wall or otherwise”

in packaged form

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

“means in an individual package or receptacle including a freight container or a portable tank or tank container or tank vehicle or shipborne barge or other cargo unit containing harmful substances for shipment”

in service

Defined in Air Navigation Act 1966, s 63

“includes the period the aircraft is in flight”

in transit

Defined in Customs Act 1960, s 3

“means taken out or sent from any country and brought into Singapore by land, sea or air (whether or not landed or transhipped in Singapore) for the sole purpose of being carried to another country either by the same or another conveyance”

Also defined in 4 other Acts

in-principle approval

Defined in Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990, s 2

“means the in-principle approval of an application for a work pass issued by the Controller under section 7(3)”

inactivated

Defined in Biological Agents and Toxins Act 2005, s 2

“means that the biological agent has been rendered non-infectious and unable to replicate itself under any condition”

inadequate package

Defined in Weights and Measures Act 1975, s 2

“means a package enclosing goods that contain less than the quantity stated on the package or a label attached to the package, where the deficiency is more than twice the amount of error prescribed for the purpose of this definition”

inauthentic online account

Defined in Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019, s 2

“means an online account that is controlled by a person other than the person represented (whether by its user profile, unique identifier or other information) as its holder, and the representation is made for the purpose of misleading …”

incapacitated

Defined in Central Provident Fund Act 1953, s 28

“means suffering from —(a)a total permanent disability; or(b)a terminal illness which arises on or after 1 May 2016,and “incapacity” is to be construed accordingly”

incapacitated former husband

Defined in Women’s Charter 1961, s 2

“means a former husband to the marriage who —(a)during the subsistence of the marriage, was or became —(i)incapacitated, by any physical or mental disability or any illness, from earning a livelihood; and(ii)unable to maintain himself …”

incapacitated husband

Defined in Women’s Charter 1961, s 2

“means a husband who —(a)during the marriage, is or becomes —(i)incapacitated, by any physical or mental disability or any illness, from earning a livelihood; and(ii)unable to maintain himself; and(b)continues to be unable to maintain …”

incapacitated person

Defined in Income Tax Act 1947, s 2

“means an individual —(a)who is below 21 years of age; or(b)who lacks capacity to make a decision for himself or herself in relation to any matter at the material time because of an impairment of, or a disturbance in the functioning of, the …”

incident

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

“means any occurrence, or series of occurrences having the same origin, resulting in a discharge or escape of oil from a ship or in a relevant threat of contamination”

incident management operations

Defined in Cross-Border Railways (Border Control Co-location) Act 2026, s 3

“has the meaning given by section 6(2)”

incidental finding

Defined in Human Biomedical Research Act 2015, s 2

“means a finding about a research subject that has potential health or reproductive importance to the research subject and is discovered in the course of conducting research but is unrelated to the purposes, objectives or variables of the …”

income

Defined in Conveyancing and Lawof Property Act 1886, s 2

“includes rents and profits”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

incorporated departments

Defined in Civil Service College Act 2001, s 2

“means the departments of the Prime Minister’s Office formerly known as the Civil Service College and the Personnel Guidance Unit”

Also defined in 1 other Act

increase

Defined in Bus Services Industry Act 2015, s 28B

“includes an increase from a starting point of nil”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

incumbrance

Defined in Conveyancing and Lawof Property Act 1886, s 2

“includes a mortgage in fee or for a less estate, and a trust for securing money, and a lien and a charge of a portion, annuity or other capital or annual sum”

independent safety auditor

Defined in Cross-Border Railways Act 2018, s 2

“means an individual appointed under section 49”

independent sales audit unit

Defined in Financial Advisers Act 2001, s 2

“means a unit of the licensed financial adviser which —(a)audits the quality of the provision of financial advisory services by representatives of the licensed financial adviser; and(b)is independent from all units of the licensed financial …”

independent school

Defined in Education Service Incentive Payment Act 2001, s 2

“means any school that is —(a)specified in any order made under section 3(1) of the School Boards (Incorporation) Act 1990; or(b)a school which is declared by the Minister by notification in the Gazette to be an independent school for the …”