Choose the definition Clearance Instruction Manual To check the content, language and formatting of a draft, incorporate agreed changes, and prepare it for onward clearance or circulation. A review confirming that material is suitable to move forward; clearance does not always constitute final authority to implement. Delay or failure to act because analysis, planning or demand for certainty continues beyond what is useful for the decision.
Clearance — A review confirming that material is suitable to move forward; clearance does not always constitute final authority to implement.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the abbreviation Official Secrets Act OSN OSA OMA OSS
OSA — Official Secrets Act
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Singapore legislation governing the unauthorised communication, receipt and safeguarding of official information.
View in full glossary Next question Choose the definition Approval A parliamentary procedure setting a deadline for specified business, after which outstanding questions are put without further debate. A decision by the person or body holding the relevant authority to agree to a plan, request, commitment or expenditure. Suitable and good enough for its intended use and operating conditions; not necessarily the most advanced or perfect option. Instruction Manual
Approval — A decision by the person or body holding the relevant authority to agree to a plan, request, commitment or expenditure.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the term A Government policy document issued to explain or discuss a matter, often presented for debate in Parliament. Cover note Allotted Day White Paper Clear Days
White Paper — A Government policy document issued to explain or discuss a matter, often presented for debate in Parliament.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the term To turn on Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature so insertions, deletions and formatting edits are recorded for review. Clean version Track changes For discussion Exam question
Track changes — To turn on Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature so insertions, deletions and formatting edits are recorded for review.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the definition Endorsement Support given by a stakeholder or intermediate authority, commonly before the matter goes to the person or forum with final approval authority. Risks, conditions or factors that have not been identified and are therefore outside the assumptions currently being considered. A small or lightweight test used to get an early indication of how an idea, approach or service is working before committing to a fuller review or rollout. The fundamental objectives, constraints and truths from which a problem or policy is reasoned, rather than relying only on inherited practice.
Endorsement — Support given by a stakeholder or intermediate authority, commonly before the matter goes to the person or forum with final approval authority.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the definition Circulation Suitable and good enough for its intended use and operating conditions; not necessarily the most advanced or perfect option. Parliamentary Question Stability, Self-reliance, and Social mobility Sending a paper to members for written comments, clearance, endorsement, approval or decision, instead of or before convening a meeting.
Circulation — Sending a paper to members for written comments, clearance, endorsement, approval or decision, instead of or before convening a meeting.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the term Suitable and good enough for its intended use and operating conditions; not necessarily the most advanced or perfect option. Boil the ocean Take a view Fit for purpose Pls follow up
Fit for purpose — Suitable and good enough for its intended use and operating conditions; not necessarily the most advanced or perfect option.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the definition Implementation is policy To pass information, direction or key messages from senior levels through managers to the wider organisation. A Public Service maxim that implementation choices and administrative details materially shape whether a policy succeeds and how it is experienced. An annual or periodic organisational event at which agency leadership communicates priorities, strategic direction and major plans for the coming work period. Informal shorthand for handover and takeover: transferring duties, records, access, outstanding actions and context from one officer or team to another.
Implementation is policy — A Public Service maxim that implementation choices and administrative details materially shape whether a policy succeeds and how it is experienced.
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View in full glossary Next question Choose the term A document defining a committee, working group or project’s purpose, scope, membership, authority, deliverables and operating arrangements. Play it by ear Action tracker Terms of Reference Steering Committee
Terms of Reference — A document defining a committee, working group or project’s purpose, scope, membership, authority, deliverables and operating arrangements.
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Clearance — A review confirming that material is suitable to move forward; clearance does not always constitute final authority to implement.
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OSA — Official Secrets Act
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Approval — A decision by the person or body holding the relevant authority to agree to a plan, request, commitment or expenditure.
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White Paper — A Government policy document issued to explain or discuss a matter, often presented for debate in Parliament.
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Track changes — To turn on Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature so insertions, deletions and formatting edits are recorded for review.
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Endorsement — Support given by a stakeholder or intermediate authority, commonly before the matter goes to the person or forum with final approval authority.
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Circulation — Sending a paper to members for written comments, clearance, endorsement, approval or decision, instead of or before convening a meeting.
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Fit for purpose — Suitable and good enough for its intended use and operating conditions; not necessarily the most advanced or perfect option.
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Implementation is policy — A Public Service maxim that implementation choices and administrative details materially shape whether a policy succeeds and how it is experienced.
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Terms of Reference — A document defining a committee, working group or project’s purpose, scope, membership, authority, deliverables and operating arrangements.
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