On 19/06/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 19/06/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 19/06/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 26/07/2012.
6.
—(1) For the purpose of obtaining data for statistical purposes, the Chief Statistician may in writing direct —
(a)
the director of any research and statistics unit to furnish or supply to him any particulars or information obtained pursuant to any requisition issued by the director under section 5; or
(b)
any public agency to furnish or supply to him any particulars or information in the possession of the public agency, whether or not —
(i)
the particulars or information were provided to the public agency by another person or public agency (referred to in this section as the data source); or
(ii)
the public agency directed to furnish the particulars or information, or the data source, is under any obligation (whether imposed by any written law or otherwise) not to disclose the particulars or information.
[3/2010]
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or any other written law, the director of any research and statistics unit or the public agency shall furnish the particulars and information as directed under subsection (1) except, in relation to a direction under subsection (1)(b), any particulars or information which have been exempted from being so furnished by —
(a)
the Minister responsible for the public agency directed to furnish or supply the particulars or information under subsection (1)(b); or
(b)
the Minister responsible for the data source.
[3/2010]
(3) All particulars and information required to be furnished under subsection (1) shall be furnished within such time as may be agreed to between the Chief Statistician and the director of a research and statistics unit or the public agency, as the case may be.
[3/2010]
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or any other written law —
(a)
no person shall be guilty of an offence under this Act or that other written law or of any breach of confidence or incur any liability, criminal or civil, by virtue merely of his disclosing any particulars or information to the Chief Statistician pursuant to any direction under subsection (1); and
(b)
no officer of the Department of Statistics (including the Chief Statistician) shall be guilty of an offence under this Act or that other written law or incur any liability, criminal or civil, by virtue merely of his accessing, or disclosing to another officer of the Department of Statistics, any particulars or information obtained pursuant to any direction under subsection (1), in the performance of his duties or functions as an officer of the Department of Statistics.
[3/2010]
(5) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any particulars or information obtained under any written law administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.