Singapore legislation
Section 18
Section 18
Powers of employment agency inspector
(1)
An employment agency inspector shall, for the purposes of this Act, have power to do all or any of the following:
to enter and search, by day or by night, any premises or part thereof when he has reasonable cause to believe that evidence of the commission of an offence under this Act can be found therein;
to require any person, whom the employment agency inspector has reason to believe has any document or information relevant to any investigation carried out by him under this Act, to produce any such document or give such information;
to retain any document relevant to any investigation carried out by him under this Act;
to examine orally any person supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances relevant to any investigation carried out by him under this Act, and to reduce into writing the answer given or statement made by that person who shall be bound to state truly the facts and circumstances with which he is acquainted; and the statement made by that person shall be read over to him and shall, after correction, be signed by him;
to require by order in writing the attendance before him of any person who, from information given or otherwise, appears to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances relevant to any investigation carried out by him under this Act, and that person shall so attend as required and if he fails to attend as so required, to report such failure to a Magistrate who may thereupon issue a warrant to secure the attendance of that person as required by the order;
to take such photographs, or audio or video recording, as he thinks necessary of the premises and persons reasonably believed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances relevant to any investigation carried out by him under this Act;
to require any person to produce any article which is relevant to any investigation carried out by him under this Act and, if necessary, to take into custody any such article.
(2)
An employment agency inspector may require the occupier of any premises and his agents and any person found in the premises to furnish such means required by the employment agency inspector as necessary for any entry, search, examination or investigation, the taking of photographs or audio or video recordings, the taking of articles into custody or otherwise in the exercise of his powers under this Act.
(3)
If any person —
intentionally offers any resistance to or wilfully delays an employment agency inspector in the exercise of any power under this section;
fails to comply with the requisition of an employment agency inspector under this section;
fails to produce any document which he is required by or under this section to produce; or
conceals or prevents or attempts to conceal or prevent a person from appearing before or being examined by an employment agency inspector,that person shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 23(4), to obstruct an employment agency inspector in the exercise of his powers.
(4)
Every employment agency inspector shall have authority to appear in court and may, with the authorisation of the Public Prosecutor, conduct any prosecution in respect of any offence under this Act.