Singapore legislation
Section 15
Section 15
Examination of articles coming into Singapore
(1)
A controller or any authorised officer may detain, open and examine any article coming into Singapore in any manner whatsoever from any place outside Singapore which he has reason to believe contains or consists of an obscene or objectionable publication.
(2)
Where, in the course of opening and examining any article under subsection (1), the controller or authorised officer finds any publication that he believes on reasonable grounds to be obscene or objectionable —
he may detain the article for so long as is necessary to institute proceedings for an offence under this Act; or
where no such proceedings are instituted within 3 months of the detention, he may return the article to the sender of the article or, if the publication is obscene or objectionable or returning the article is not reasonably practicable, he may, subject to section 20, destroy or cause to be destroyed the article or the contents of the article consisting of any such publication.