Section 85 — Directive prohibiting, etc., foreign volunteers

(1)A directive under this section may be given by a competent authority only to a Part 4 politically significant person.

(2)A competent authority may give a directive to a Part 4 politically significant person either —

(a)prohibiting the person from accepting, or requiring that person to stop accepting, any voluntary labour, or voluntary professional services, provided or to be provided —

(i)generally by any individual who is not a citizen of Singapore; or

(ii)by a particular individual specified in the directive who is not a citizen of Singapore, to or for the benefit of the Part 4 politically significant person; or

(b)requiring the Part 4 politically significant person to disclose, in accordance with subsection (3), all voluntary labour, or voluntary professional services, provided during each reporting period —

(i)by an individual who is not a citizen of Singapore; and

(ii)to or for the benefit of the Part 4 politically significant person.

(3)Disclosure to a competent authority required under subsection (2)(b) must be in a foreign volunteers report relating to a reporting period that —

(a)is in the form required by the competent authority and in the manner prescribed in Regulations or, subject to those Regulations, as approved by the competent authority;

(b)is given to the competent authority no later than 31 January in the year following the year in which the voluntary labour, or voluntary professional services, was provided;

(c)contains the prescribed details of every voluntary labour, or voluntary professional services, provided during the reporting period to the Part 4 politically significant person by an individual who is not a citizen of Singapore, and the prescribed particulars of each such volunteer;

(d)is signed by the person who is prescribed by Regulations to be responsible for making the foreign volunteers report relating to the Part 4 politically significant person; and

(e)is accompanied by a declaration made by the person mentioned in paragraph (d) as responsible for making the foreign volunteers report relating to the Part 4 politically significant person.

(4)Regulations may prescribe a longer period for the purposes of subsection (3)(b).

(5)Nothing in this section prohibits the receipt by a Part 4 politically significant person of any voluntary labour or voluntary professional services as follows:

(a)any voluntary labour or voluntary professional services of a prescribed type, being labour or services that are performed solely pursuant to a contract for service entered into or with a person providing any service to or for the benefit of a Part 4 politically significant person;

(b)any voluntary labour or voluntary professional services provided to a Part 4 politically significant person by an officer or a member of the Part 4 politically significant person.

(6)In this section —“reporting period” means the period of 12 months starting 1 January and ending 31 December in any year, and includes a special reporting period; “special reporting period” means the period —

(a)starting the date the directive under subsection (2) takes effect; and

(b)ending on (and including) 31 December of the same year the date in paragraph (a) falls.