Section 14 — What is a Singapore public document

In this Part, “Singapore public document” —

(a)means —

(i)a document executed in Singapore and falling within any of the following categories:(A) a document emanating from an authority or official connected with the courts or tribunals of Singapore, including a document emanating from a public prosecutor, a clerk of a court or a process‑server; (B) an administrative document; (C) a notarial act; (D) an official certificate that is placed on a document signed by a person in his or her private capacity (for example, an official certificate recording the registration of a document or the fact that the document was in existence on a certain date, or an official or a notarial authentication of a signature); or

(ii)a document (including a document that is not signed, sealed or stamped) that is prescribed to be a Singapore public document; but

(b)does not include any of the following documents:

(i)a document executed by a diplomatic or consular agent;

(ii)a prescribed private document.