Singapore legislation
Section 6
Section 6
Duties of managers of cinemas, etc.
(1)
The manager or any ticket collector or usher of any cinema or theatre or such employee as the manager may authorise in that behalf;
the manager of any specified building or such employee or other person as the manager may authorise in that behalf; or
the conductor or ticket inspector of any bus,may order any person who smokes in any cinema, theatre, specified building or bus, as the case may be, to cease smoking forthwith, indicating the penalty provided therefor, and if that person refuses, neglects or fails to comply with such order, he may require that person to leave forthwith the cinema, theatre, specified building or bus, as the case may be.
(2)
If any such person refuses to leave forthwith the cinema, theatre, specified building or bus, as the case may be, any person mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) may seek the assistance of any police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer authorised in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner, and that police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer may thereupon deal with that person in the manner provided in section 4.
(3)
Any person who hinders, obstructs, threatens, abuses, molests or assaults any person mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) in the performance or execution of anything which he is empowered to do under this section shall be guilty of an offence and may be arrested without warrant by any police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer so authorised and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
(4)
No person who has been ordered to leave a cinema, theatre, specified building or a bus under subsection (1) shall be entitled to a refund of any admission fee or money paid by him for the purchase of a ticket.
(5)
Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing any person from being prosecuted for any act which constitutes an offence under section 4.