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No. S 885

Public Entertainments and Meetings Act

(CHAPTER 257)

Public Entertainments and Meetings
(Amendment) Rules 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 23(1) of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Public Entertainments and Meetings (Amendment) Rules 2014 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2015.

Deletion and substitution of rule 2

2. Rule 2 of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Rules (R 1) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is deleted and the following rule substituted therefor:

“Definitions

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“licence” means a licence issued or renewed, or to be issued or renewed, under the Act by the Public Entertainment Licensing Officer;

“Licensing Officer” means the Public Entertainment Licensing Officer.”.

Amendment of rule 3

3. Rule 3 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) The website http://www.police.gov.sg is prescribed for the purpose of section 5(3) of the Act (relating to criteria and requirements to be satisfied by an applicant for a licence).”;

(b)

by deleting paragraphs (1A) and (3); and

(c)

by deleting the words “public entertainment establishment” in paragraph (4) and substituting the words “specified establishment stated”.

Amendment of rule 5

4. Rule 5(1) of the principal Rules is amended by deleting the words “public entertainment establishment” and substituting the words “specified establishment”.

Amendment of rule 6

5. Rule 6(2) of the principal Rules is amended by deleting the words “public entertainment establishment” in sub‑paragraph (a) and substituting the words “specified establishment”.

Deletion of First Schedule

6. The First Schedule to the principal Rules is deleted.

Amendment of Second Schedule

7. The Second Schedule to the principal Rules is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “any place to which the public or any class of the public has access, whether gratuitously or otherwise” in item 1 of Part I and substituting the words “a specified establishment”;
(b)	by deleting the words “(other than ad‑hoc performances)” in item 6 of Part I and substituting the words “regulated by the Public Entertainment Licensing Officer under the Act”;
(c)	by deleting the words “(other than arts entertainment)” in item 8 of Part I and substituting the words “(other than an arts entertainment regulated by the Arts Entertainment Licensing Officer under the Act)”;
(d)	by deleting the words “public entertainment establishment” wherever they appear in the footnotes in Part I and substituting in each case the words “specified establishment”; and
(e)	by deleting the words “public entertainment establishment” in item 2 of Part II and substituting the words “specified establishment”.

[G.N. Nos. S 294/2002; S 469/2003; S 327/2005; S 353/2006; S 492/2009; S 456/2010]

Made on 30 December 2014.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/091 TF 1; AG/LLRD/SL/257/2010/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 23(2) of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act).