Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (Amendment of Schedule) Order 2002

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 25 Jun 2002

No. S 292

Public Entertainments and Meetings Act

(Chapter 257)

Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (Amendment of Schedule) Order 2002

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act, Mr David Lim Tik En, Senior Minister of State, charged with the responsibility of the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (Amendment of Schedule) Order 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2002.

Amendment of Schedule

2. The Schedule to the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “film” in paragraph 1, the following definitions:

“ “ad hoc performance” means any variety act or performance of music, singing or dancing which is provided on one or more occasions within a period not exceeding 3 months;

“arts entertainment” means any of, or any combination of, the following:

(a)	any play, opera, pantomime, puppet-show, ad hoc performance or tableaux;
(b)	any display of set pieces, commemorative decorations or representations of real or mythical creatures;
(c)	any exhibition of models, reading matter, pictures, photographs or of statuary or other forms of representation of human or animal figures;
(d)	any display or exhibition of other still objects or art generally; or
(e)	any play-reading, poetry-reading or recital,

in any place to which the public or any class of the public has access whether gratuitously or otherwise;”;

(b)

by deleting sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 2 and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(a)	any variety act, performance of music, singing, dancing, gymnastics, acrobatics and legerdemain, demonstration, display or parade (other than ad hoc performances);”;

(c)

by deleting sub-paragraphs (b) and (f) of paragraph 2;

(d)

by deleting the words “or puppet-show” in paragraph 2(g);

(e)

by deleting the words “play-reading, recital,” in paragraph 2(m); and

(f)

by deleting the word “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (m) of paragraph 2, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraph:

“(ma)

any arts entertainment; or”.

Made this 20th day of June 2002.

TAN CHIN NAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Information,
Communications and the Arts,
Singapore.

[MITA H01.017.003 V5; AG/LEG/SL/257/2002/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 2(3) of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act).

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