No. S 961
Societies Act
(CHAPTER 311)
Societies Act
(Amendment of Schedule)
Notification 2020
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 33A of the Societies Act, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Notification:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Notification is the Societies Act (Amendment of Schedule) Notification 2020 and comes into operation on 26 November 2020.
Amendment of Schedule
2.  The Schedule to the Societies Act is amended by inserting, immediately after item 11, the following items:
12.  Any society whose object, purpose or activity, whether primary or otherwise, is related to —
(a)the manufacture, cultivating, smoking, administering, consuming, trafficking, importing or exporting of, or any other activity involving (whether directly or indirectly), a controlled drug as defined in section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185);
(b)the playing of a game of chance, a game that involves both an element of chance and an element of skill or a game that is presented as involving an element of chance, whether for money or money’s worth;
(c)the making or accepting of a bet, whether for money or money’s worth, on the outcome of a competition, an event or a process;
(d)a game, method, device, scheme or competition by which a prize, whether consisting of money or money’s worth, is distributed or allotted in any manner depending upon or to be determined by chance or lot, whether the game, method, device, scheme or competition is held, drawn, exercised or managed inside or outside Singapore; or
(e)the provision of sexual services for payment or reward.
13.  Any society whose object, purpose or activity is to —
(a)commit; or
(b)promote or facilitate the commission of,
an offence under any written law or an act that would constitute an offence under a written law if committed in Singapore.”.
Made on 25 November 2020.
PANG KIN KEONG
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.
[112/2/0035; AG/LEGIS/SL/311/2020/1 Vol. 1]