2. In this Order —“animal” means —| (a) | any fish; | | (b) | any reptile; | | (c) | any bird; | | (d) | any amphibian; or | | (e) | any mammal (other than man); |
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“animal management authorisation” means —| (a) | an authorisation granted by an authorised officer under section 37(5), 40(6) or 45(1) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965 to destroy an animal in any place in Singapore; or | | (b) | an approval granted under section 5C(1) of the Wildlife Act 1965 to kill, trap, take or keep any wildlife in any place in Singapore; |
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“animal management purpose” means —| (a) | to destroy an animal in any place in Singapore pursuant to an authorisation granted by an authorised officer under section 37(5), 40(6) or 45(1) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965, including to sedate an animal preparatory to, or consequential on, carrying out this animal management purpose; | | (b) | to kill, trap, take or keep any wildlife in any place in Singapore pursuant to an approval granted under section 5C(1) of the Wildlife Act 1965, including to sedate an animal preparatory to, or consequential on, carrying out this animal management purpose; or | | (c) | to exercise a power conferred by any of the following provisions, which involves the removal, seizure, detention, impounding, examination or destruction of an animal, including to sedate an animal preparatory to, or consequential on, carrying out this animal management purpose:| (i) | section 19(2)(a)(i) or (b), 35(4)(a) or (b), 38(1)(a), (2) or (3), 39(2) or 51(1) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965; | | (ii) | section 13(3)(b) of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976; | | (iii) | section 11B(1)(a) or (2)(a) of the Wildlife Act 1965; | | (iv) | rule 22(1) or (2) or 24(1) of the Animals and Birds (Licensing and Control of Cats and Dogs) Rules 2024 (G.N. No. S 683/2024); |
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“authorised officer” means an employee of the National Parks Board who is —| (a) | appointed under section 3(2) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965 as an authorised officer; or | | (b) | appointed under section 4(2) of the Wildlife Act 1965 as an authorised officer; |
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| “current”, for a licence, means in effect, and includes not suspended; |
“defined gun” means a gun that —| (a) | is not a firearm; and | | (b) | is handheld, and designed to be carried by an individual or is reasonably capable of being carried concealed about the person of an individual; |
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“defined weapon” means —| (a) | a blow gun or blow pipe, being a hollow tube or similar device out of which an arrow or a dart or hard pellet or projectile is shot by use of breath expelled from the mouth; or | | (b) | a dart designed to be shot out of a blow gun or blow pipe by use of breath expelled from the mouth; |
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“Director-General” means —| (a) | the Director‑General, Animal Health and Welfare appointed under section 3(1) of the Animals and Birds Act 1965; | | (b) | the Director‑General, Wildlife Management appointed under section 4(1) of the Wildlife Act 1965; or | | (c) | the Director-General of Health or a Deputy Director‑General of Health; |
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“entity” means —| (a) | a body corporate (including a limited liability partnership); | | (b) | an unincorporated association; | | (c) | a partnership; | | (d) | a business trust; | | (e) | a body of individuals who together form a body; or | | (f) | a person other than an individual; |
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“firearm” means a gun that —| (a) | is designed or adapted to fire bullets, shots or other projectiles by means of burning propellant; and | | (b) | if used in the way for which it is designed or adapted, is capable of being aimed at a target and causing hurt or injury by propelling a bullet, shot or other projectile; |
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“goods vehicle” means any of the following motor vehicles:| (a) | a motor vehicle that is constructed or adapted for use on any road for the carriage of goods, or a trailer so constructed or adapted; | | (b) | a goods-cum-passengers vehicle, |
| but excludes any construction equipment, engineering plant, trivan, recovery vehicle and any vehicle used as a mobile canteen or mobile bank; |
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| “goods-cum-passengers vehicle” has the meaning given by rule 2(1) of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (R 5); |
| “holder”, of a licence or an animal management authorisation, means the person to whom the licence or authorisation is granted; |
“licensed user” —| (a) | for a defined gun, means a holder of a current licence to possess or use the defined gun; or | | (b) | for a defined weapon, means a holder of a current licence to possess the defined weapon; |
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“motor car” means a motor vehicle with 4 wheels which is constructed to carry a load or passengers and the weight of which unladen —| (a) | does not exceed 3,000 kilograms in the case of a vehicle which is —| (i) | constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects; and | | (ii) | adapted to carry not more than 7 passengers exclusive of the driver; or |
| | (b) | in any other case, does not exceed 2,500 kilograms; |
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“motor vehicle” means a vehicle that is propelled wholly or partly by a motor or by any means other than human or animal power and is intended or adapted for use on any road, but excludes any of the following:| (a) | a motor vehicle that is constructed to drive itself; | | (b) | a lorry crane; | | (c) | a forklift, scissor lift or boom lift; | | (d) | a motor tractor or track laying vehicle; | | (e) | a motorcycle (with or without a sidecar attached to it); | | (f) | a motor vehicle that is authorised for use as a public service vehicle by a licence issued under Part 5 of the Road Traffic Act 1961; |
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| “unmanned vessel” means a vessel equipped wholly or substantially with an autonomous system (such as an unmanned surface vehicle and a saildrone) and includes a barge drawn by an unmanned vessel; |
“vessel” means any vessel which is used or capable of being used in navigation by water without regard to method or lack of propulsion, and includes —| (a) | a craft designed, used or capable of being used, solely or partly for navigation at sea or on an inland waterway or a body of water; | | (b) | an air‑cushioned vehicle (such as a hovercraft) or a submersible craft; | | (c) | a single‑hulled boat propelled solely by paddle or oars; and | | (d) | a kayak, canoe, raft or other small boat which is propelled solely by paddle or oars and is not designed or adapted to carry any passenger, |
| but excludes any unmanned vessel, and any vessel that seats 8 or more passengers and is used to provide sightseeing tours, or a ferry service according to regular routes to and from Singapore, between islands of Singapore or along Singapore’s rivers, inland waterways or inland bodies of water. |
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