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National Research Fund Act 2006; Payment Systems (Oversight) Act 2006; Private Lotteries (Amendment) Act 2006; Residential Property (Amendment) Act 2006; Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2006; Singapore Armed Forces (Amendment) Act 2006; Supplementary Supply (FY2005) Act 2006; Supply Act 2006; Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006
William Farquhar, who served as the first resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. On 30 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a "factory" or trading post on the island of Singapore.
In October 2003, then acting Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan launched "SingaporeMedicine" to promote Singapore as a regional medical hub. He said more than 200,000 foreigners visited Singapore for its medical services in 2002 and that the Economic Review Committee reaffirmed its ambition of serving 1 million foreign patients annually by 2012 ...
The statutory boards of the Government of Singapore are autonomous organisations that have been tasked to perform an operational function by legal statutes passed as Acts in the Parliament of Singapore. The statutes define the purpose, rights and powers of each authority. These organisations would usually subsequently report to one specific ...
The Penal Code [38] states the elements and penalties of common criminal offences such as homicide, theft and cheating, and also sets out general principles of criminal law in Singapore. The Sale of Goods Act, [39] an English Act made applicable to Singapore by the Application of English Law Act, sets out legal rules relating to the sale and ...
The member of the Cabinet heading the ministry is known as the minister, who is supported by a junior minister known as minister of state in Singapore. The administrative management of the ministry is led by a senior civil servant known as permanent secretary .
On 1 July 2018, he was appointed Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Law and Ministry of Health. Former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong revealed that when Tong became a Senior Minister of State, he essentially had a 75% pay cut—down to about S$500,000 a year compared to his previous earnings of over S$2 million a year as a lawyer. [12]
Singapore inherited a Westminster system of government from the British.In such systems, there is an overlap between the executive and legislative branches of government. The head of state, who is the president of Singapore, is a member of both the executive Government of Singapore and the Parliament of Singapore but plays a minimal role in them.