Assistance that may be rendered to foreign resolution authority
89.—(1)  Notwithstanding the provisions of any prescribed written law or any requirement imposed thereunder or any rule of law, the Authority or any person authorised by the Authority may, in relation to a request by a resolution authority of a foreign country or territory for assistance —
(a)transmit to the resolution authority any material in the possession of the Authority that is requested by the resolution authority or a copy thereof;
(b)order any person to furnish to the Authority any material that is requested by the resolution authority or a copy thereof, and transmit the material or copy to the resolution authority;
(c)order any person to make an oral statement to the Authority on any information requested by the resolution authority, record such statement, and transmit the recorded statement to the resolution authority; or
(d)request any ministry or department of the Government, or any statutory authority in Singapore, to furnish to the Authority any material that is requested by the resolution authority or a copy thereof, and transmit the material or copy to the resolution authority.
(2)  An order under subsection (1)(b) or (c) shall have effect notwithstanding any obligation as to secrecy or other restriction upon the disclosure of information imposed by any prescribed written law or any requirement imposed thereunder, any rule of law, any contract or any rule of professional conduct.
(3)  Nothing in this section shall compel an advocate and solicitor, or a legal counsel referred to in section 128A of the Evidence Act (Cap. 97), to furnish or transmit any material or copy thereof that contains, or to disclose, a privileged communication made by or to him in that capacity.
(4)  An advocate and solicitor, or a legal counsel referred to in section 128A of the Evidence Act, who refuses to furnish or transmit any material or copy thereof that contains, or to disclose, any privileged communication shall nevertheless be obliged to give the name and address (if he knows them) of the person to whom, or by or on behalf of whom, the privileged communication was made.
(5)  A person is not excused from making an oral statement pursuant to an order made under subsection (1)(d) on the ground that the statement might tend to incriminate him but, where the person claims before making the statement that the statement might tend to incriminate him, that statement shall not be admissible in evidence against him in criminal proceedings other than proceedings for an offence under section 91.
[Act 31 of 2017 wef 04/06/2018]
[Act 9 of 2013 wef 18/04/2013]