Public Entertainments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2024

No. S 351

Public Entertainments Act 1958

Public Entertainments
(Miscellaneous Amendments)
Order 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 23(1) of the Public Entertainments Act 1958, the Minister for Communications and Information makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order is the Public Entertainments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2024 and, except for paragraph 3(b), (c), (d), (f) and (g), is deemed to have come into operation on 31 December 2021.

(2) Paragraph 3(b), (c), (d), (f) and (g) comes into operation on 30 April 2024.

Amendment of Public Entertainments (Specified Arts Entertainment) (Exemption) Order 2005

2. In the Public Entertainments (Specified Arts Entertainment) (Exemption) Order 2005 (G.N. No. S 319/2005) —

(a)	in paragraph 2, in the definition of “arts entertainment”, replace “Schedule” with “First Schedule”; and
(b)	in paragraph 3(1), replace “section 3” with “section 4”.

Amendment of Public Entertainments and Meetings (Classification of Arts Entertainments) (Exemption) Order 2016

3. In the Public Entertainments and Meetings (Classification of Arts Entertainments) (Exemption) Order 2016 (G.N. No. S 89/2016) —

(a)

in paragraph 1, delete “and Meetings”;

(b)

in paragraph 2, delete the definition of “Board”;

(c)

in paragraph 2, replace the definition of “exempt video recording” with —

“ “exempt film” has the meaning given by paragraph 3 of the Films (Classification — Exempt Films Other than Video Games) Notification 2019 (G.N. No. S 338/2019);”;

(d)

in paragraph 2, replace the definition of “permitted video recording” with —

“ “permitted film” means —

(a)	an exempt film; or
(b)	any film that is made solely for karaoke singing and is classified, re‑classified or deemed classified under section 15 of the Films Act 1981, so long as the conditions imposed in relation to the classification (if any) are satisfied;”;

(e)

in the following provisions, replace “section 15A(2)” with “section 16(2)”:

Paragraph 3(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d) and (2)

Paragraph 4(2)

Paragraph 5(2)

Paragraph 6(2)

Paragraph 7(2);

(f)

in paragraph 3(2)(b), replace “video recording displayed or exhibited during the karaoke singing is a permitted video recording” with “film displayed or exhibited during the karaoke singing is a permitted film”; and

(g)

in paragraph 4(2), replace sub-paragraph (a) with —

“(a)	any film displayed or exhibited during the karaoke singing must be a permitted film;”.

Amendment of Public Entertainments (Exemption) Order 2016

4. In the Public Entertainments (Exemption) Order 2016 (G.N. No. S 227/2016), in paragraph 2(1), replace “section 3” with “section 4”.

Amendment of Public Entertainments (Art Exhibition — Still Objects) (Exemption) Order 2019

5. In the Public Entertainments (Art Exhibition — Still Objects) (Exemption) Order 2019 (G.N. No. S 582/2019), in paragraph 3(1), replace “section 3” with “section 4”.

Made on 17 April 2024.

JOSEPH LEONG WENG KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications
and Information,
Singapore.

[CRN.0001.200004; AG/LEGIS/SL/257/2020/6 Vol. 1]

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