Words starting with L

licensed specialist builder

Defined in Building Control Act 1989, s 2

“means a person to whom a specialist builder’s licence is granted in respect of those specialist building works but excludes the person when that specialist builder’s licence is not in force”

licensed trade repository

Defined in Securities and Futures Act 2001, s 2

“means a corporation that has in force a trade repository licence granted by the Authority under section 46E(1)”

licensed trust company

Defined in Trust Companies Act 2005, s 2

“means a corporation holding a trust business licence”

licensed warehouse

Defined in Customs Act 1960, s 3

“means a warehouse or other place licensed or deemed to be licensed under section 51(1), 63(1), or 83(4) (if the licence granted under section 83(3) covers an activity for which a licence under section 51(1), 63(1) or 66(1) is required)”

licensed waste collector

Defined in Resource Sustainability Act 2019, s 2

“means a person who is licensed under section 31 of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987”

licensed waste disposal facility

Defined in Resource Sustainability Act 2019, s 24

“means a disposal facility in respect of which there is a waste disposal licence under section 23 of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987 for the treatment of food waste”

licensee

Defined in Banking Act 1970, s 56

“means a person who is granted a licence under section 57B”

Also defined in 43 other Acts

licensing authority

Defined in Medicines Act 1975, s 2

“means the appropriate licensing authority as defined in section 4(1)”

licensing objectives

Defined in Gambling Control Act 2022, s 3

“means the objectives of —(a)preventing gambling from being a source of crime or disorder, or being associated with crime or disorder or being used to support crime;(b)ensuring that gambling is conducted honestly; and(c)minimising the …”

Licensing Officer

Defined in Arms and Explosives Act 1913, s 2

“means the person appointed by the Minister under section 4 and includes an Assistant Licensing Officer”

Also defined in 13 other Acts

life annuity

Defined in Income Tax Act 1947, s 2

“means an annuity payable under a policy issued to an SRS member for a term ending with, or at a time ascertainable only by reference to, the end of his or her life”

life business

Defined in Insurance Intermediaries Act, s 2

“means all insurance business concerned with life policies and, in relation to an insurer, includes any type of insurance business carried on as incidental only to the insurer’s other life business”

Also defined in 1 other Act

life imprisonment

Defined in Criminal Procedure Code 2010, s 2

“means imprisonment for the duration of a person’s natural life”

life policy

Defined in Deposit Insurance and Policy Owners’ Protection Schemes Act 2011, s 2

“has the meaning given in the First Schedule to the Insurance Act 1966”

Also defined in 1 other Act

life reinsurance broker

Defined in Insurance Act 1966, s 2

“means a person who is for the time being registered under section 76 in respect of reinsurance of liabilities under insurance policies relating to life business”

Also defined in 1 other Act

life-sustaining treatment

Defined in Mental Capacity Act 2008, s 2

“means treatment which, in the view of another person providing health care for that person, is necessary to sustain life”

Lifelong Income Fund

Defined in Central Provident Fund Act 1953, s 2

“means the Lifelong Income Fund established and maintained by the Board under section 27N”

lift

Defined in Building (Strata Management) Act 2004, s 2

“means a power‑driven installation that —(a)is, or is intended to be, permanently installed in or attached to a building or part of a building;(b)is used or designed for use for raising or lowering, or both raising and lowering, people or …”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

lift upgrading works

Defined in Town Councils Act 1988, s 29

“means any building operations, demolition or installation works necessary or ancillary to installing any lift or additional lift in a building or part thereof”

lifting appliance

Defined in Factories Act, s 7

“includes a pulley block, gin wheel, chain block or set of chain blocks”

Also defined in 1 other Act

lifting gear

Defined in Factories Act, s 7

“includes chains, ropes, chain slings, rope slings, rings, hooks, shackles, swivels or eyebolts”

Also defined in 1 other Act

lifting machine

Defined in Factories Act, s 7

“includes a crane, crab, winch, teagle, runway, transporter, piling frame and any suspended scaffold capable of being raised or lowered by climbers or winches”

Also defined in 1 other Act

lighthouse

Defined in Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996, s 2

“means a distinctive structure on or off a coast exhibiting a major light designed to serve as an aid to navigation”

Also defined in 1 other Act

like goods

Defined in Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties Act 1996, s 2

“means any goods which the Minister determines are identical in all respects to the subject goods or, in the absence of such goods, any other goods which the Minister determines have characteristics closely resembling those of the subject …”

limitations

Defined in Trade Marks Act, s 2

“means any limitations of the exclusive right to the use of a trade mark given by the registration of a person as proprietor of the trade mark, including limitations of that right as to mode of use, or as to use in relation to —(a)goods to …”

limited common property

Defined in Building (Strata Management) Act 2004, s 2

“means such part of the common property in a parcel that is —(a)in the case of common property to be comprised in a strata title plan — designated in the sale and purchase agreement of any proposed lot in the parcel for the exclusive …”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

limited company

Defined in Companies Act 1967, s 4

“means a company limited by shares or by guarantee or, prior to the expiry of the period of 2 years as specified in section 17(6), a company limited both by shares and guarantee”

Also defined in 1 other Act

limited liability law partnership

Defined in Legal Profession Act 1966, s 2

“means a limited liability partnership licensed as a limited liability law partnership under section 138”

limited liability partnership

Defined in Corporate Service Providers Act 2024, s 2

“means a limited liability partnership registered under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005”

Also defined in 42 other Acts

limited liability partnership agreement

Defined in Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005, s 2

“means any agreement expressed or implied between the partners of the limited liability partnership or between the limited liability partnership and its partners which determines the mutual rights and duties of the partners and their rights …”

Also defined in 2 other Acts