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William Farquhar, who served as the first resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. On 30 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a "factory" or trading post on the island of Singapore.
Cabinet has the general direction and control of the government and is accountable [1] to Parliament. There are three separate branches of government: the legislature, executive and judiciary resembling by the Westminster system. [2] Singapore has been described as being a de facto one-party state.
This is a somewhat complete list of all Singapore Acts of Parliament which have been passed - the entire list of acts passed is available online at the Singapore Attorney-General's Chambers website, at Singapore Statutes.
The Singapore Civil Service is the bureaucracy of civil servants that supports the Government of Singapore. Along with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), statutory boards, and other independent government bodies, the civil service makes up the overall public service of Singapore. [1] As of 2022, the civil service has about 87,000 employees. [2]
Singapore is a country known for its highly efficient and centralised government system largely due to these statutory boards. [2] They play a significant role in the development and implementation of policies and programs in various sectors of the country.
The Singapore system of government, as with those of a number of other Commonwealth jurisdictions, exhibits a partial separation of powers. The ministers of the Cabinet, who govern the executive branch of government, are appointed from the Members of Parliament (MPs). The cabinet both comes from and drives the parliament's legislative agenda.
The remaining functions of the CED was reorganised and renamed into Singapore Customs. ICA was to be part of the Home Team and a new, blue uniform was introduced to reflect that change. The first Commissioner of ICA was Lock Wai Han, who was in the Singapore Police Force before he oversaw the merger of the two agencies.
The Government of Singapore consists of several departments, known as ministries and statutory boards in Singapore. Ministries are led by a member of the Cabinet and deal with state matters that require direct political oversight.