Words starting with S

smelter

Defined in Tin and Tin-Ore (Disclosure of Smelters’ Stocks) Act, s 2

“includes a person who keeps any factory or place for the purpose of smelting or otherwise treating tin or tin-ore”

smoke

Defined in Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999, s 2

“includes soot, ash, grit and gritty particles emitted in smoke”

Also defined in 1 other Act

smoking

Defined in Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Act, s 2

“means inhaling and expelling the smoke of tobacco or other substance”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

smoking facility

Defined in Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Act 1992, s 2

“means an area or a room in a specified place that is designated under section 3C(3) by the manager of the specified place or the Director‑General as an area or a room within which smoking is permitted”

SMS

Defined in Broadcasting Act 1994, s 2A

“means an electronic service that only enables the transmission of short text messages from an end-user on a mobile telephone to another mobile telephone through a telecommunication service”

Also defined in 1 other Act

SMS message

Defined in Broadcasting Act 1994, s 2A

“means a text message sent using an SMS”

social gambling

Defined in Gambling Control Act 2022, s 3

“has the meaning given by section 12(1)”

social media service

Defined in Gambling Control Act 2022, s 3

“means —(a)an electronic service that satisfies all the following characteristics:(i)the sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online interaction or linking between 2 or more end‑users (including enabling end‑users to share …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

society

Defined in Singapore Red Cross Society Act 1973, s 2

“means the Singapore Red Cross Society incorporated under this Act.”

Also defined in 10 other Acts

software

Defined in Strategic Goods (Control) Act 2002, s 2

“means a collection of one or more programs or microprograms recorded, stored or embodied in any device”

soil

Defined in Control of Plants Act 1993, s 2

“includes earth, water, peat, manure, compost, sand, clay and any other substance capable of supporting plant life, or transmitting any pest, whether or not used or intended to be used as a growing medium, or in any process of manufacture …”

soldier

Defined in Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972, s 2

“means any person, other than an officer, a senior military expert or a non‑uniformed serviceman, who is a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, and includes any such person who is a servicewoman”

Also defined in 1 other Act

solemnisation

Defined in Women’s Charter 1961, s 2

“includes the contracting of a marriage or effecting a marriage in accordance with the law, religion, custom or usage of the parties or any of the parties thereto”

solicit

Defined in Charities Act 1994, s 35

“mean, respectively, represent and solicit in any manner, whether expressly or impliedly and whether done —(a)by speaking directly to the person or persons to whom the representation or solicitation is addressed (whether or not in the …”

solicitor

Defined in Companies Act 1967, s 4

“means an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court”

Also defined in 8 other Acts

Solicitor-General

Defined in Interpretation Act 1965, s 2

“means the Solicitor-General of Singapore”

son

Defined in Inheritance (Family Provision) Act 1966, s 2

“include a male or female child adopted by the deceased by virtue of an order made under the provisions of any written law relating to the adoption of children for the time being in force in Singapore, Malaysia or Brunei Darussalam, and …”

sound broadcast

Defined in Copyright Act, s 7

“means sounds broadcast otherwise than as part of a television broadcast”

Also defined in 1 other Act

sound recording

Defined in Copyright Act, s 7

“means the aggregate of the sounds embodied in a record”

Also defined in 2 other Acts

sound-track

Defined in Copyright Act, s 7

“means —(a)the part of any article or thing (being an article or thing in which those visual images are embodied) in which sounds are embodied; or(b)a disc, tape or other device in which sounds are embodied and which is made available by …”

sounds

Defined in Copyright Act 2021, s 7

“has the meaning given by section 24(2)(b)”

soundtrack

Defined in Copyright Act 2021, s 7

“has the meaning given by section 24(2)(c)”

space satellite

Defined in Economic Expansion Incentives (Relief from Income Tax) Act 1967, s 41

“means an apparatus placed in orbit relative to the earth for any economic, scientific or technological purpose”

Speaker

Defined in Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, s 2

“mean, respectively, the Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of Parliament”

Also defined in 3 other Acts

special account

Defined in Central Provident Fund Act 1953, s 2

“means a special account maintained under section 13”

special affiliate

Defined in Casino Control Act 2006, s 153

“means a former member of the Council appointed under section 156A as a special affiliate of the Council”

special authorisation

Defined in Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act 2018, s 2

“means an authorisation that is granted under section 11 and in effect”

special building

Defined in Building Control Act 1989, s 26

“means any building of which not less than 90% of its floor area is used solely for residential purposes, and in this definition”

special checking

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

“has the meaning given by section 5(2)”

special CIQ power

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

“means a power described in section 4(3)”