Other public bodies a client will meet

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Body	Statute	Role in a digital-asset matter	When the client meets it
Ministry of Finance	—	Tax policy, incentive design	Indirectly, through IRAS and MAS
Ministry of Law	Legal Profession Act 1966; Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018	Legal profession policy; the Insolvency Office and Official Receiver	Insolvency of a counterparty
Ministry of Manpower	Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990	Employment Pass, ONE Pass, Tech.Pass	Relocating founders and staff
Economic Development Board	Economic Development Board Act 1961	Investment incentives, Global Investor Programme	Relocation of a family or group headquarters
Enterprise Singapore	Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018	Grants for start-ups, Startup SG	Early-stage funding
Personal Data Protection Commission	Personal Data Protection Act 2012	Data protection, cross-border transfer	Platform design, customer data
Cyber Security Agency	Cybersecurity Act 2018	Critical information infrastructure, incident reporting	Exchanges and custodians of scale
Infocomm Media Development Authority	Info-communications Media Development Authority Act 2016	Electronic transactions, digital trust	Smart-contract and e-signature questions
Official Receiver / Insolvency Office	Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018	Bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation	Failure of a counterparty
Singapore Land Authority	Land Titles Act 1993	Tokenised real estate	Real-asset tokenisation

Each of these bodies appears in a later Part. The point of listing them here is to show the civil-law reader that "one regulator" does not mean "one authority". The Personal Data Protection Commission's view of pseudonymous blockchain addresses, examined in Part J, Chapter IX, binds a platform as much as MAS's notices. The Ministry of Manpower's decision on an Employment Pass, examined in Part P, Chapter I, decides whether a founder can live in Singapore at all. A structuring plan that clears MAS and fails at the Ministry of Manpower has failed.

For general information only. This article does not constitute legal or tax advice, does not replace advice on an individual case and creates no lawyer-client relationship. It reflects the legal position as of October 2026.

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