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56 :::“ “moratorium period” means a period of 10 years starting 1 March 2022;”.

(5) Section 150A of the Casino Control Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (8), the following subsection:
 * “(9) Where—
 * (a) an amount of casino tax is due from any person under this Act otherwise than as an agent under this section;
 * (b) except for this subsection, an amount is or would, at any time during the period of 90 days after the date of the receipt of the notice in paragraph (c), be payable by the Government to the defaulting taxpayer by or under any written law, contract or scheme; and
 * (c) before payment of the amount referred to in paragraph (b) is made to the defaulting taxpayer, the Commissioner gives notice to any public officer (including an employee appointed under section 9 of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Act 1992) by whom the payment is to be made that the tax is due from the defaulting taxpayer,
 * then the public officer must and is entitled to, despite any other written law, contract or scheme, reduce the amount mentioned in paragraph (b) by the amount of the whole or any part of the casino tax mentioned in paragraph (a), and if the public officer makes such a reduction—
 * (d) the amount of the casino tax mentioned in paragraph (a) is reduced by the amount of the reduction; and
 * (e) the amount of the reduction is, to the extent of such amount, deemed to have been paid to the defaulting taxpayer in accordance with any law, contract or scheme governing the payment of moneys mentioned in paragraph (b) to the defaulting taxpayer.”.