Maintenance of Parents Act - Singapore Statutes Online

Information required by Tribunal or Commissioner

14A.—(1) The Tribunal or the Commissioner may, in discharging its or his functions under this Act, obtain any information, record, document or article from any officer of such Government agency or statutory body as the Minister may from time to time prescribe by notification in the Gazette, as the Tribunal or the Commissioner, as the case may be, may consider necessary or desirable for the purposes set out in subsection (2).

(2) Any information, record, document or article obtained under subsection (1) may be used by the Tribunal or the Commissioner, as the case may be, for any of the following purposes:

(a)	identifying and locating the children of the parent;
(b)	assessing the veracity of or supplementing the information provided by the parent, applicant, respondent or children of the parent; and
(c)	assessing the ability of the parent to maintain himself and each of the children of the parent to maintain him, including but not limited to their respective incomes, earning capacity, property and other financial resources, expenses and liabilities.

(3) Each member of the Tribunal and the Commissioner shall, in respect of any information, record, document or article obtained under subsection (1) and which has been disclosed to him —

(a)

take reasonable steps to ensure that such information, record, document or article is kept confidential to the Tribunal or the Commissioner, as the case may be;

(b)

not use the information, record, document or article for any purposes other than those stated in subsection (2); and

(c)

disclose such information, record, document or article only —

(i)	as between the Commissioner and the Tribunal and any officer of the Tribunal, or any person acting for or under the direction of the Tribunal, for the purposes stated in subsection (2);
(ii)	with the written permission of the relevant Government agency or statutory body as the Minister may from time to time prescribe by notification in the Gazette, which provided such information, record, document or article to the Tribunal or the Commissioner, as the case may be;
(iii)	when required to do so by any court or under any written law;
(iv)	for the purposes of any criminal proceedings or for any other purpose the disclosure of which is required or authorised by or under any written law. [37/2010 wef 15/03/2011]

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