House to House and Street Collections (Amendment) Regulations 2003

No. S 612

House to House and Street Collections Act

(Chapter 128)

House to House and Street Collections (Amendment) Regulations 2003

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the House to House and Street Collections Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the House to House and Street Collections (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into operation on 26th December 2003.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the House to House and Street Collections Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the definition of “collector’s identification card” and substituting the following definition:

“ “public accountant” means a person who is registered or deemed to be registered under the Accountants Act (Cap. 2) as a public accountant;”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Application and licence

3.—(1) An application for a licence to promote a collection shall be in the form set out in the First Schedule.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an application under paragraph (1) shall be made using the electronic application service provided not later than 14 days before the date on which the collection is proposed to commence, or before such other date as the Commissioner of Police may allow.

(3) In the event of a malfunction or failure of the electronic application service, the application shall be made in the written form to the Commissioner of Police.

(4) The Commissioner of Police may reject any application which is not made in accordance with this regulation.

(5) The licence shall be in the form set out in the Second Schedule.”.

Amendment of regulation 4

4. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “, collector’s identification card” in paragraphs (c) and (d).

Amendment of regulation 5

5. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “and collector’s identification card” in paragraph (1);

(b)

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

“(a)

a certificate of authority which —

(i)	shall be in the form set out in the Third Schedule;
(ii)	except for the signature of the collector, shall be duly completed and authenticated by or on behalf of the chief promoter of the collection; and
(iii)	shall include a statement indicating the purposes of the collection inserted therein or annexed thereto; and”; and

(c)

by deleting the words “and collector’s identification card” in the regulation heading.

Amendment of regulation 6

6. Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “police officer” in paragraph (a), the words “, a member of the public who is being approached by him to make a donation”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(b)	keep the certificate of authority in his possession and return the certificate to the promoter on a replacement thereof or at any other time on a demand therefor by the promoter; and
(c)	return the certificate of authority to the promoter when the collection is completed.”.

Amendment of regulation 12

7. Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “one month” and substituting the words “2 months”.

Amendment of regulation 13

8. Regulation 13 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a)

where money or property has been collected or property has been sold, be in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule, and in either case shall —

(i)	where the total amount of money collected, including the proceeds derived from the sale of property exceed $5,000, be certified by the chief promoter of the collection and by a public accountant who is appointed by the organisation of the chief promoter to be the auditor of the account; or
(ii)	where the total amount of money collected, including the proceeds derived from the sale of property does not exceed $5,000, be certified by a person who is registered as a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and who is appointed by the chief promoter’s organisation to be the auditor of the account.”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “Seventh Schedule” in paragraph (b) and substituting the words “Fourth Schedule”.

Deletion of regulations 14, 15 and 16 and substitution of regulation 14

9. Regulations 14, 15 and 16 of the principal Regulations are deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Chief promoter to return certificate of authority

14. The chief promoter of a collection shall return to the Commissioner of Police every certificate of authority when the certificate is no longer required for the purposes of the collection or when the collection is completed.”.

Deletion of First to Seventh Schedules and substitution of First to Fourth Schedules

10. The First to Seventh Schedules to the principal Regulations are deleted and the following Schedules substituted therefor:

“FIRST SCHEDULE

Regulation 3(1)

House to House and Street Collections Act
(Chapter 128)

House to House and Street Collections Regulations

Form of Application for Licence