model, article, note, document or information itself or the substance, effect
or description thereof is communicated or received;
(b) obtaining or retaining any photograph, drawing, plan, model, article, note
or document include the copying or causing to be copied the whole or any
part of any photograph, drawing, plan, model, article, note or document;
and
(c) the communication of any photograph, drawing, plan, model, article, note
or document include the transfer or transmission of the photograph,
drawing, plan, model, article, note or document.
(3) The President may, by notification in the Gazette, amend the Schedule.
[27/2001]
Penalties for spying
3.—(1) If any person for any purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of
Singapore —
(a) approaches, inspects, passes over or is in the neighbourhood of, or enters
any prohibited place within the meaning of this Act;
(b) makes any photograph, drawing, plan, model or note which is calculated to
be or might be or is intended to be directly or indirectly useful to a foreign
Power or to an enemy; or
(c) obtains, collects, records, publishes or communicates to any other person
any secret official code word, countersign or password, or any photograph,
drawing, plan, model, article or note, or other document or information
which is calculated to be or might be or is intended to be directly or
indirectly useful to a foreign Power or to an enemy,
he shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who takes or makes any photograph, drawing, map, measurement,
sounding or survey of or within a prohibited place, shall, unless he proves that the thing
so taken or made is not prejudicial to the safety or interests of Singapore and is not
intended to be directly or indirectly useful to a foreign Power or to an enemy, be guilty
of an offence:
Provided that it shall not be an offence under this subsection to take or make, outside
a prohibited place, a photograph or drawing in which such place or part thereof is
included, unless it is proved that the photograph or drawing is intended to be prejudicial
to the safety or interests of Singapore or to be directly or indirectly useful to a foreign
Power or to an enemy. This proviso does not apply to any photograph taken from an
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