Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018 - Singapore Statutes Online

Enterprise Singapore Board
Act 2018

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

An Act to establish the Enterprise Singapore Board and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other Acts.

[1 April 2018: Except sections 64, 65, 67(2) and 70 ;

2 April 2018: Sections 64 and 65 ]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act is the Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018.

(2) Sections 67(2) and 70 come into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“accreditation mark” means an accreditation mark specified by the Board under section 6(2)(i)(iv);

“Board” means the Enterprise Singapore Board established by section 3;

“certification mark” means a certification mark specified by the Board under section 6(2)(i)(iv);

“Chairperson” means the individual appointed under section 12(1)(a) as the Chairperson of the Board, and includes any individual appointed under section 14 to act in that capacity;

“Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Board, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;

“company” means a body corporate and (to avoid doubt) includes a VCC;

[S 26/2022 wef 13/01/2022]

“Deputy Chairperson” means the Deputy Chairperson of the Board appointed under section 12(1)(b);

“document” includes any device or medium on which information is recorded or stored;

“function”, in relation to the Board, means a function conferred on the Board by or under this Act or any other Act;

“goods” means any movable property, and includes any commodity, fish, livestock or plant;

“inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 33;

“International Enterprise Singapore Board” means the International Enterprise Singapore Board established by the International Enterprise Singapore Board Act (Cap. 143B, 2002 Revised Edition) repealed by this Act;

“officer”, in relation to the Board, means an employee of the Board and includes an individual under a secondment arrangement which makes available the service of the individual to the Board;

“process” means one or more related or interacting activities that use inputs to deliver an intended result, and includes any test method;

“product” means any output, tangible or intangible, that results from a process, and includes any goods, material, service, terminology or management system;

“public authority” means a body established or constituted by or under a public Act to perform or discharge a public function;

“registering authority” means any authority competent under any written law to register a company, firm or other body of persons, or a trade mark or design;

“Singapore Rubber Fund” means the Singapore Rubber Fund as defined in the Rubber Industry Act 1992;

“Singapore Standard” means a standard established by the Board under section 6(2)(i)(iii);

“standard” means a definition, classification, description, requirement, specification, guideline or characteristic, by reference to which a product or process is assessed to be fit for its purpose;

“Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board” means the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board established by the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Act (Cap. 303A, 2002 Revised Edition) repealed by this Act;

“trade mark” has the meaning given by the Trade Marks Act 1998;

[S 26/2022 wef 13/01/2022]

“VCC” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Variable Capital Companies Act 2018.

[S 26/2022 wef 13/01/2022]

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