Use Cases

Why Use Sign?

Digital services and applications can use Sign for any use case that requires digital signatures on PDF documents.

✅ Greater trust & assurance: Compared to other electronic signing options, signatures produced by Sign are considered as Secure Electronic Signatures (SES).

✅ Convenience for your users: Enable remote signing for your application users and employees

✅ Faster time-to-market: Easy and quick integration

For government agencies, Sign can also ensure your agency's compliance with IM8, with respect to Circular Minute No. 5/2021 on the Use of Electronic Signatures (link to circular, accessible via intranet only)

Examples of current use cases for Sign include:

• Appointing your Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), under the Office of the Public Guardian Online (OPGO)

• Bank and insurance documents

• Contracts

• Declarations

• Legal documents, via e-Litigation or MinLaw's Legal Technology Platform (LTP)

Under the First Schedule to the Electronics Transaction Act 2010 (ETA), the following use cases are excluded from the operation of Part II of the ETA. Sign with Singpass should not be used to create Secure Electronic Signatures in relation to these matters:

1. The creation or execution of a will

2. The creation, performance or enforcement of an indenture, declaration of trust or power of attorney, with the exception of implied, constructive and resulting trusts and a lasting power of attorney defined under section 2(1) of the Mental Capacity Act 2008

3. Any contract for the sale or other disposition of immovable property, or any interest in such property

4. The conveyance of immovable property or the transfer of any interest in immovable property.

(Source: Singapore Statutes Online)

The above is not intended to be legal advice. Please seek your own legal advice if necessary.