Infrastructure Protection (Photography of Protected Areas and Protected Places — Exemption) Order 2024

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Current version
as at 23 Nov 2024

No. S 186

Infrastructure Protection Act 2017

Infrastructure Protection
(Photography of Protected Areas
and Protected Places — Exemption)
Order 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 82 of the Infrastructure Protection Act 2017, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Infrastructure Protection (Photography of Protected Areas and Protected Places — Exemption) Order 2024 and comes into operation on 7 March 2024.

Definitions

2. In this Order —

“contractor” means a person engaged to provide goods and services, otherwise than under a contract of service, by another person;

“Singapore Land Authority” means the Singapore Land Authority established under the Singapore Land Authority Act 2001;

“specified person” means —

(a)

a contractor (A) engaged by the Singapore Land Authority to conduct an aerial mapping exercise of Singapore; or

(b)

any of the following persons acting on A’s behalf for the conduct of the aerial mapping exercise:

(i)	an employee of A;
(ii)	a sub-contractor engaged by A;
(iii)	an employee of a sub-contractor engaged by A;

“sub‑contractor” means a person engaged to provide goods and services, otherwise than under a contract of service, by a contractor.

Exemption from section 29(1) of Act

3. Section 29(1) of the Act does not apply to a specified person who takes a photograph of a protected area or a protected place if the photograph is taken —

(a)	in accordance with the directions of the Singapore Land Authority;
(b)	during the period from 7 March 2024 to 28 February 2025 (both dates inclusive); and
(c)	for the sole purpose of conducting the aerial mapping exercise mentioned in the definition of “specified person” in paragraph 2.

Made on 6 March 2024.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/96/001; AG/LEGIS/SL/137B/2020/5 Vol. 1]

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