Section 34(1): Subject to this section, no person resident in Singapore shall, without written authority granted by the Registrar, file or cause to be filed outside Singapore an application for a patent for an invention unless:
 
(a) an application for a patent for the same invention has been filed in the Registry not less than 2 months before the application outside Singapore; and
 
(b) no directions have been given under section 33 in relation to the application in Singapore or all such directions have been revoked.

Section 34(3): Any person who files or causes to be filed an application for the grant of a patent in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.