Singapore legislation
Section 9
Section 9
Warrant to search for or remove a child or young person
(1)
If it appears to a Magistrate’s Court, on information or complaint made by any of the persons mentioned in section 33 that there is reasonable cause to believe —
that any child or young person has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated, or neglected in any place within the jurisdiction of the Court, in a manner likely to cause the child or young person unnecessary suffering, or to be injurious to his health; or
that an offence under this Part or any offence involving bodily injury to a child or young person, has been or is being committed in respect of the child or young person,the Magistrate’s Court may issue a warrant authorising any police officer named therein to search for the child or young person, and, if it appears to the officer that the child or young person has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated, or neglected in the manner aforesaid, or that any such offence has been or is being committed in respect of the child or young person, to take him to, and detain him in, a place of safety, until he can be brought before a court, or authorising any police officer to remove the child or young person, with or without search, to a place of safety and detain him there until he can be brought before a court; and the court before whom the child or young person is brought may commit him to the care of a relative or other fit person in like manner as if the person in whose care he was had been committed for trial for an offence under this Part, and section 7 shall apply.
(2)
A Magistrate’s Court issuing a warrant under this section may, by the same warrant, cause any person accused of any offence in respect of the child or young person to be apprehended and brought before the Court, and proceedings to be taken against that person according to law.
(3)
Any police officer authorised by warrant under this section to search for any child or young person, or to remove any child or young person, with or without search, may enter (if need be by force) any house, building or other place specified in the warrant, and may remove the child or young person therefrom.
(4)
Every warrant issued under this section shall be addressed to and executed by a police officer, who shall be accompanied by the person laying the information, if that person so desires, unless the court by which the warrant is issued otherwise directs, and may also if the court by which the warrant is issued so directs, be accompanied by a Government medical officer.
(5)
It shall not be necessary in any information or warrant under this section to name the child or young person, but, in such case, the child or young person shall be described as particularly as the knowledge of the informant or the court permits.