SINGAPORE, Aug. 14 -- Singapore is moving to strengthen its Public Sector Governance Act (PSGA) to ensure tighter control over how public agencies share data with external partners.

The amendments will enable public sector agencies to authorise an external partner to receive data that is required for the services they are delivering on behalf of the public sector, The Straits Times reported today.

The minister of the public sector agency, or a qualified person appointed by such minister, must authorise the data sharing.

PSGA was designed to provide a clear legal basis for data sharing across the public sector and details data protection and data sharing requirements for public agencies.

In some instances, standards for public agencies...