Under Section 22 of the PPIPA, parliament may only punish offences committed in the preceding session, or the last session of the preceding parliament.
Singapore’s 14th Parliament was constituted on Aug 24, 2020, and its first session closed on Mar 24, 2023. Its second session ran from Apr 10, 2023, until dissolution on Apr 15, 2025.
Ms Lim and Mr Faisal testified before the COP in December 2021, during that first session. Mr Singh was convicted of lying to the COP on Feb 17, 2025, during the second session.
“However, parliament rightly deferred consideration of Ms Lim’s and Mr Faisal’s cases until the court process had concluded,” said Ms Indranee, referring to the appeal that Mr Singh filed at the High Court.
She said the COP considered Ms Lim and Mr Faisal’s roles to be “subsidiary” and that both had been helpful to the committee in a limited way.
The committee hence recommended that consideration of any action on Ms Lim and Mr Faisal’s false statements to the COP should be deferred, until investigations or criminal proceedings against Mr Singh had concluded.
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