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TRANSBOUNDARY HAZE POLLUTION
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respect to any business decision to engage in conduct or to engage in conduct that condones any conduct by another entity or individual, on any land outside Singapore (being land owned or occupied by the second entity), which causes or contributes to any haze pollution in Singapore; or
(ii) for all or a substantial part of the operational functions (as distinguished from financial or administrative functions) of the second entity.

Extra-territorial application

4. This Act shall extend to and in relation to any conduct or thing outside Singapore which causes or contributes to any haze pollution in Singapore.

PART II
LIABILITY FOR TRANSBOUNDARY HAZE POLLUTION

Offences for causing, etc., haze pollution in Singapore

5.—(1) An entity shall be guilty of an offence if—

(a) the entity—
(i) engages in conduct (whether in or outside Singapore) which causes or contributes to any haze pollution in Singapore; or
(ii) engages in conduct (whether in or outside Singapore) that condones any conduct (whether in or outside Singapore) by another entity or individual which causes or contributes to any haze pollution in Singapore; and
(b) there is haze pollution in Singapore at or about the time of that conduct by that entity.

(2) An entity which is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on conviction to—