Words starting with P

possession

Defined in Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992, s 2

“means actual or constructive possession of the property”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

post

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“means any system for the collection, despatch, conveyance, sorting, handling and delivery of postal articles by or through a postal licensee”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

post office

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“includes any building, house, room, vehicle or place used for the provision of any postal services”

Also defined in 1 other Act

post‑secondary education

Defined in Skills Future Singapore Agency Act 2016, s 2

“means education of persons —(a)who are 16 years of age or older; and(b)who are not undergoing a course of education at any of the following:(i)a Government school;(ii)a school registered under the Education Act 1957 and which receives a …”

postage

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“means the fee chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

postage stamp

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“means any label or stamp for denoting any postage or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and includes any adhesive postage stamp or stamp printed, impressed or otherwise indicated on a postal article, whether the postage …”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

postal article

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“means any article or thing transmissible by post but does not include any article or thing that the Postal Authority may prescribe to be not transmissible by post”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

Postal Authority

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“means the person appointed under section 3 to be responsible for the administration of this Act”

Also defined in 1 other Act

Postal Department

Defined in Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, s 2

“means the Postal Services Department established under the Post Office Act in force before 1st October 1982”

postal licensee

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“means a person to whom a licence has been granted under section 6”

postal service

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“means any service for the conveyance of postal articles from one place to another by post, and includes the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sorting, sending, despatching and delivering any postal articles and any other …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

postal successor company

Defined in Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, s 2

“has the meaning given by section 46(1)”

postal undertaking

Defined in Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, s 2

“means all the lands, buildings and other property, movable or immovable, vested in the Government immediately before 1st October 1982 for the purposes of the Postal Services Department and all assets, powers, rights, interests and …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

postal voting papers

Defined in Presidential Elections Act 1991, s 2

“means —(a)a ballot paper designed and intended to be used exclusively for the postal voting method (called in this Act a postal ballot paper); and(b)an envelope designed and intended to be used exclusively to contain a postal ballot paper …”

postal voting period

Defined in Presidential Elections Act 1991, s 2

“means the period —(a)starting the day immediately after the day of nomination at the election; and(b)ending (and including) the eve of polling day in Singapore at the election”

postcard

Defined in Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, s 2

“means a card recognised as a postcard in accordance with the terms of the Convention regulating the affairs of the Universal Postal Union”

poster

Defined in Presidential Elections Act 1991, s 2

“means any of the following:(a)any paper, plastic, corflute or other inflexible material on which content is printed, written, drawn or depicted in such a way as to be fully legible;(b)any text, any colours or visual images (animated or …”

posting box

Defined in Postal Services Act 1999, s 2

“includes any pillar box, wall box or other box or receptacle provided by or under the authority of a postal licensee for the purpose of receiving postal articles for transmission by post”

Also defined in 1 other Act

power

Defined in Government Technology Agency Act 2016, s 2

“means a power given to the Agency by this Act or any other Act”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

power-assisted bicycle

Defined in Active Mobility Act 2017, s 2

“means a bicycle that —(a)is equipped with an electric motor; and(b)may be propelled by human power or by the electric motor with which it is equipped, or by both”

Also defined in 4 other Acts

power-driven

Defined in Amusement Rides Safety Act 2011, s 2

“means driven by mechanical, electrical, magnetic, pneumatic, hydraulic or any other means but does not include being driven solely by human physical effort”

PPF Agency

Defined in Insurance Act 1966, s 2

“means the deposit insurance and policy owners’ protection fund agency constituted under section 56 of the Deposit Insurance and Policy Owners’ Protection Schemes Act 2011”

Also defined in 1 other Act

PPF exempt member

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

“means a relevant insurer which has been exempted by the Authority under section 32 from the requirement to be a PPF Scheme member”

PPF Funds

Defined in Insurance Act 1966, s 2

“means the Policy Owners’ Protection Life Fund and the Policy Owners’ Protection General Fund established under section 34 of the Deposit Insurance and Policy Owners’ Protection Schemes Act 2011”

Also defined in 1 other Act

PPF General Fund

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

“means the Policy Owners’ Protection General Fund established under section 34(1)(b)”

PPF Life Fund

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

“means the Policy Owners’ Protection Life Fund established under section 34(1)(a)”

PPF Scheme

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

“means the Policy Owners’ Protection Scheme established under section 30”

PPF Scheme member

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

“means a member of the PPF Scheme”

practicable

Defined in Clean Air Act, s 2

“means reasonably practicable having regard, amongst other things, to local conditions and circumstances and to the current state of technical knowledge, and “best practicable means” includes the provision and the efficient maintenance of …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

practice monitoring programme

Defined in Accountants Act 2004, s 32

“means a programme to determine whether a public accountant has complied with the professional standards when providing public accountancy services”