List of Acts of Parliament in Singapore
This is a somewhat complete list of all Singapore Acts of Parliament which are currently in force - the entire list of acts in force is available online at the Singapore Attorney-General's Chambers website, at Singapore Statutes. Approved Budgets and annual debates may be found at the Supply Act.
Acts by year
1869
- Oaths of Office and Allegiance Act
1871
1872
- Foreshores Act
- Preservation of the Peace Act (repealed on 1 November 2000)
1875
1881
1886
- Bills of Sale Act
- Conveyancing and Law of Property Act
1893
1898
1901
- Land Improvement Act (repealed on 1 April 1999)
1903
- Coin Act (repealed on 1 September 2001)
1906
- Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act
1908
1909
- Apportionment of Rents Act
- Civil Law Act
1913
1915
1921
- Innkeepers Act
- Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act
1922
- Decorations and Uniforms Act
- Premiums on Leases Act (repealed on 1 April 2001)
1923
- Debtors Act
- Local Treasury Bills Act
1924
1926
1928
1929
- Estate Duty Act
- Malaysia Revenue Vessels Act
1933
1934
- Distress Act
- Guardianship of Infants Act
- Legitimacy Act
- Probate and Administration Act
1935
1938
1939
- Adoption of Children Act
- Prevention of Crimes Act (repealed on 1 November 2000)
1940
- Land Revenue Collection Act
1941
- Commissions of Inquiry Act
- Indecent Advertisements Act
- Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act
1947
- House to House and Street Collections Act
- Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation) Act
- Income Tax Act
1948
- International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act
- Military Manoeuvres Act
1949
- Bills of Exchange Act
- National Emblems (Control of Display) Act
1950
- Betting and Sweepstake Duties Act
- Departmental Titles (Alteration) Act
- Entertainments Duty Act
- Price Control Act
1951
- Consular Conventions Act (repealed on 1 May 2005)
- Probation of Offenders Act
1952
- Mental Disorders and Treatment Act
- Private Lotteries Act
1953
- Central Provident Fund Act
- Contributory Negligence and Personal Injuries Act
- Control of Rent Act (repealed on 1 April 2001)
- Local Forces (Relief of Financial Hardship) Act
1954
1955
1956
- Government Proceedings Act
- Pensions Act
- Public Service Commission Act
1957
1958
- Employment Agencies Act
- Police Force Act
- Public Order (Preservation) Act
1959
- Banishment Act
- Control of Manufacture Act
- Development Fund Act
- Frustrated Contracts Act
- Housing and Development Act
- Immigration Act
- Limitation Act
- Massage Establishments Act
- Minister for Finance (Incorporation) Act
- Moneylenders Act
- Notaries Public Act
- Protected Areas and Protected Places Act
1960
1961
1962
- Parliament (Privileges, Immunities and Powers) Act
1964
- Cattle Act
- Emergency (Essential Powers) Act
1965
- Animals and Birds Act
- Feeding Stuffs Act
- Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) Act
- National Registration Act
- Payroll Tax Act
1966
- Administration of Muslim Law Act
- Air Navigation Act
- Asian Development Bank Act
- Audit Act
- Bretton Woods Agreements Act
- Cinematograph Film Hire Duty Act
- Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act
- Exchange Control Act
- Financial Procedure Act
- Free Trade Zones Act
- Government Contracts Act
- Inheritance (Family Provision) Act
- Insurance Act
- Land Acquisition Act
- Loans (International Banks) Act
1967
1968
- Arbitration (International Investment Disputes) Act
- Diplomatic and Consular Officers (Oaths and Fees) Act
- Employment Act
- External Loans Act
- Extradition Act
- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Act
- International Finance Corporation Act
- Jurong Town Corporation Act
1969
- Controlled Premises (Special Provisions) Act (repealed on 31 March 2002)
- Hire-Purchase Act
1970
- Banking Act
- Civil List and Pension Act
- Enlistment Act 1970[3]
- Fisheries Act
- Metrication Act
- Monetary Authority of Singapore Act
- National Servicemen (Employment) Act
- Passports Act
- Preservation of Monuments Act
1971
- Chit Funds Act
- Post Office Savings Bank of Singapore Act (repealed on 21 May 1999)
1972
1973
- Arms Offences Act
- Buildings and Common Property (Maintenance and Management) Act (repealed on 1 April 2005)
- Business Registration Act
- Census Act
- Control of Essential Supplies Act
- Factories Act
- Geneva Conventions Act
- Misuse of Drugs Act
- Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act
- Private Investigation and Security Agencies Act
- Public Entertainments and Meetings Act
1974
- Electrical Workers and Contractors Licensing Act (repealed on 1 December 2002)
- Martial Arts Instruction Act (repealed on 22 December 2003)
- National Police Cadet Corps Act
- Newspaper and Printing Presses Act
- Parking Places Act
- Planning (Cancellation of Permission) Act (repealed on 8 December 2000)
- Property Tax (Surcharge) Act
1975
- Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act
- Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act
- Medicines Act
- Parking Places (Surcharge) Act
- Parks and Trees Act (repealed on 1 August 2005)
1976
- Pensions (Expatriate Officers) Act
1978
- Hijacking of Aircraft and Protection of Aircraft and International Airports Act
- Parliamentary Pensions Act
1979
- Co-operative Societies Act
- Evidence (Civil Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act
- Money-changing and Remittance Businesses Act
- Pharmacists Registration Act
- Sale of Commercial Properties Act
1980
1981
- Films Act 1981
- Legal Profession Act
1982
- International Enterprise Singapore Board Act
1983
1984
- Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act
- HUDC Housing Estates Act
1985
- Appraisers and House Agents Act
1986
- Civil Defence Act
- Futures Trading Act (repealed on 1 October 2002)
1987
- Accountants Act (repealed on 1 April 2004)
- Copyright Act
- Development Loan (1987) Act
- Environmental Public Health Act
- Human Organ Transplant Act
- Intoxicating Substances Act
- Public Service (Variation of 1984 Annual Wage Increases) Act 1987
- Public Transport Council Act
1988
- Child Care Centres Act
- Homes for the Aged Act
- Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Act (repealed on 1 September 1995)
- Public Service (Monthly Variable Component and Non-pensionable Annual Allowance) Act
1989
- Building Control Act
- Corruption (Confiscation of Benefits) Act (repealed on 13 September 1999)
- Destitute Persons Act
- Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act
1990
1991
- Architects Act
- Land Surveyors Act
- Nanyang Technological University Act
- National Arts Council Act
- Presidential Elections Act
- Professional Engineers Act
1992
- Commodity Trading Act
- Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act
- Drug Trafficking (Confiscation of Benefits) Act (repealed and renamed as the Corruption, drug trafficking and other serious crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act)
- Education Endowment Scheme Act
- Government Securities Act
- Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Act
- Institute of Technical Education Act
- Nanyang Polytechnic Act
- National Council of Social Service Act
- National Productivity Board Act (repealed on 1 April 1996)
1993
- Application of English Law Act
- Children and Young Persons Act
- Computer Misuse Act
- Control of Plants Act
- Fire Safety Act
- Goods and Services Tax Act
- Land Titles Act
- National Heritage Board Act
1994
1995
- Bankruptcy Act
- Contact Lens Practitioners Act
- Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act
- Legal Aid and Advice Act
- Maintenance of Parents Act
- Merchant Shipping Act
- National Library Board Act
- Pension Fund Act
1996
- Advance Medical Directive Act
- Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties Act
- Executive Condominium Housing Scheme Act
- Institute of Education (Repeal) Act 1996
- Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act
- National Parks Act
1997
- Civil Defence Shelter Act
- Community Mediation Centres Act
- Government Procurement Act
- Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act
1998
- Boundaries and Survey Maps Act
- Control of Vectors and Pesticides Act
- Electronic Transactions Act
- Geographical Indications Act
- Holidays Act
- Merchant Shipping (Civil Liability and Compensation for Oil Pollution) Act
- Post Office Savings Bank of Singapore (Transfer of Undertakings and Dissolution) Act
- Princess Elizabeth Fund (Repeal) Act 1998
1999
- Building and Construction Authority Act
- Dentists Act
- Environmental Pollution Control Act
- Exchanges (Demutualisation and Merger) Act
- Final Supply (FY1998) Act 1999
- Infectious Diseases Act
- Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore Act
- Insurance Intermediaries Act
- Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act
- Nurses and Midwives Act
- Postal Services Act
- Telecommunications Act 1999
2000
- Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority Act
- Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act
- Compulsory Education Act
- Defence Science and Technology Agency Act
- Developmental Investment Fund Act
- Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act
- Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act
- Oaths and Declarations Act 2000
- Political Donations Act
2001
- Arbitration Act
- Children Development Co-Savings Act
- Civil Service College Act
- Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act
- Control of Rent (Abolition) Act 2001
- District Cooling Act
- Education Service Incentive Payment Act
- Electricity Act
- Energy Market Authority of Singapore Act
- Securities and Futures Act
- Financial Advisers Act
- Gas Act
- Health Promotion Board Act
- Health Sciences Authority Act
- Home Affairs Uniformed Services Superannuation Act
- Intellectual Property Office of Singapore Act
- Lifelong Learning Endowment Fund Act 2001
- Parliamentary Elections (Temporary Suspension of Overseas Voting) Act 2001
- Public Utilities Act
2002
- Final Supply (FY 2001) Act 2002
- International Development Association Act
- Media Development Authority of Singapore Act
- National Environment Agency Act
- Payment and Settlement Systems (Finality and Netting) Act
2003
- Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act
- Maritime Offences Act
- Martial Arts Instruction (Repeal) Act 2003
2004
- Accountants Act 2004
- Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004
- Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2004
- Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004
- Business Trusts Act 2004
- Competition Act 2004
- Human Cloning and Other Prohibited Practices Act 2004
- Manufacture of Optical Discs Act 2004
- Plant Varieties Protection Act 2004
- Police Force Act 2004
2005
- CISCO (Dissolution) Act 2005
- Diplomatic and Consular Relations Act 2005
- Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005
- Parks and Trees Act 2005
2006
- Casino Control Act 2006
- Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006
2007
- Goods and Services Tax Act 2007
- Passports Act 2007
- Terrorism Act 2007
2008
- Mental Capacity Act 2008
- Moneylenders Act 2008
2009
- Preservation of Monuments Act 2009
2010
- Criminal Procedure Code 2010
- Employment Agencies Act 2010
- Hostage-Taking Act 2010
- Parliamentary Elections Act 2010
- Presidential Elections Act 2010
- Rapid Transit Systems Act 2010
- Road Traffic Act 2010[4]
2011
- Amusement Rides Safety Act 2011
- Private Lotteries Act 2011
- Singapore University of Technology and Design Act 2011
2012
- Energy Conservation Act 2012
- Personal Data Protection Act 2012
2013
- Financial Holding Companies Act 2013
- Fire Safety Act 2013
- Prisons Act 2013
2014
2015
References
- Bartholomew, G[eoffrey] W[ilson]; Srinivasagam, Elizabeth; Netto, Pascal Baylon (1987), Sesquicentennial Chronological Tables of the Written Laws of the Republic of Singapore 1834-1984, Singapore: Malaya Law Review, Malayan Law Journal, ISBN 9971-70-053-0 .