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Relative preeminence of officials for ceremonial purposes

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The Singapore order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the Government of Singapore. It has no legal standing but is used to dictate ceremonial protocol at events of a national nature. The official list was gazetted in 1967.

Order of precedence

Rank Position Name
1 President Tharman Shanmugaratnam
2 Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
3 Former Prime Minister

Senior Minister

Lee Hsien Loong
4 Deputy Prime Ministers Gan Kim Yong

Heng Swee Keat

5 Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon
6 Speaker of Parliament Seah Kian Peng
7 Former Presidents Tony Tan

Halimah Yacob

8 Former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong
9 Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean
10 Cabinet Ministers see here
10A Senior Ministers of State see here
10B Ministers of State see here
10C Senior Parliamentary Secretaries see here
11 Foreign High Commissioners and Ambassadors to Singapore see here
11A Singapore High Commissioners and Ambassadors see here
11B Chargés d'affaires see here
12 Awardees of the Order of Temasek
13 Attorney-General Lucien Wong
14 Chairman of the Public Service Commission Lee Tzu Yang
15 Supreme Court Judges see here
15A State Court Judges see here
16 Deputy Speaker of Parliament see here
17 Parliamentary Secretaries see here
18 Members of Parliament see here

References

  1. "Singapore order of precedence". Retrieved 4 December 2016 – via NewspaperSG.
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