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REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

Published by Authority

NO. 16]

Friday, September 26

[2003

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 2nd September 2003 and assented to by the President on 15th September 2003:—

Evidence (Amendment) Act 2003

(No. 17 of 2003)

I assent.

S R NATHAN,

President.

15th September 2003.

Date of Commencement: 26th September 2003

An Act to amend the Evidence Act (Chapter 97 of the 1997 Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Evidence (Amendment) Act 2003 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 126

2. The Evidence Act is amended by renumbering section 126 as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsection:

“(2) No person who is a member, an officer or an employee of, or who is seconded to, any organisation specified in the Schedule to the Official Secrets Act (Cap. 213) shall be compelled to disclose communications made to him in official confidence when he considers that the public interest would suffer by the disclosure.”.