Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Amendment) and Other Matters Bill

Mutual Assistance in
Criminal Matters (Amendment)
and Other Matters Bill

Bill No. 35/2024

Read the first time on 14 October 2024.

An Act to amend the Extradition Act 1968, the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 2000 and the Trustees Act 1967 to give effect to certain recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force and to enhance the legal framework for international assistance in criminal matters and extradition, and to make consequential amendments to certain other Acts.

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 is the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (Amendment) and Other Matters Act 2024 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

PART 1

AMENDMENT OF EXTRADITION ACT 1968

Amendment of section 2

2. In the Extradition Act 1968, in section 2(1), in the definition of “foreign State”, in paragraph (b), replace sub‑paragraph (ii) with —

“(ii)

any territory (including any territory specified in the Third Schedule);”.

Amendment of section 43

3. In the Extradition Act 1968, in section 43(2), replace “the official seal of a Minister in or” with “an official seal or public seal, or stamped with an official stamp, of that State or territory, or of a Minister, a department or an official of the government,”.

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