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Rh :(b) a public officer performing duties in the public authority under a secondment arrangement making available temporarily to the public authority the services of public officers.

Power to obtain information

108.—(1) A competent authority may by written notice require any person (whether in or outside Singapore) to provide, within a period or at intervals specified in the notice, and in such form and manner as may be specified in the notice, all documents or all information or material (or both), for the purposes in subsection (2), such as documents or information or material about all or any of the following:
 * (a) the membership of the person by individuals who are not citizens of Singapore;
 * (b) relations with foreign principals;
 * (c) the provision of voluntary labour, or voluntary professional services, to or for the benefit of the person by individuals who are not citizens of Singapore;
 * (d) recurrent and capital expenditure for the administration and management of activities undertaken by the person which are directed towards a political end in Singapore.

(2) The power in subsection (1) may be exercised only in relation—
 * (a) to any matter which the competent authority considers necessary for any of the following purposes:
 * (i) to determine whether any information or material provided to a competent authority under a provision of this Act or the Regulations is correct;
 * (ii) to determine whether there are grounds for any directive to be given under this Act against any person;
 * (iii) to determine whether or not to exercise any power under section Part 4, 5 or 6; and