Singapore legislation
Section 178
Section 178
Boards of Visitors
(1)
The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint for every place of safety a Board of Visitors to advise and make recommendations to the Director‑General on such matters as he or she may refer to it.
(2)
A Board of Visitors may be appointed for one or more places of safety as the Minister thinks fit.
(3)
A Board of Visitors consists of such number of persons as the Minister may determine.
(4)
Every person appointed under subsection (1) may enter at reasonable times any place of safety and make such inquiry or examination therein as appears to the person necessary and must also make such report as the Minister may require.
(5)
Despite subsection (1), the Minister may direct a Board of Visitors —
to visit any place which is established for the purposes of care and reception of women and girls and which is not a place of safety; and
to make such inquiry or examination therein as appears to the Board necessary and also to make such report as the Minister may require.
(6)
Any person who refuses admittance to any place of safety or any place referred to in subsection (5) to any member of a Board of Visitors, the Director‑General or any officer deputed by the Director‑General for the purpose or who offers any hindrance or obstruction to any such persons after his or her identity is reasonably established shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.