Singapore legislation

Section 22

of Drug Trafficking (Confiscation of Benefits) Act

Section 22

Absconded persons

(1)

For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be taken to be convicted of a drug trafficking offence if the person absconds in connection with the drug trafficking offence and any reference in Part II to the defendant shall include reference to such a person.

(2)

For the purposes of subsection (1), a person shall be taken to abscond in connection with a drug trafficking offence if whether before or after the commencement of this Act —

(a)

investigations for a drug trafficking offence have been commenced against the person; and

(b)

(i)the person dies before proceedings in respect of the offence were instituted, or if such proceedings were instituted, the person dies before he is convicted; or

(ii)

at the end of the period of 6 months from the date on which investigations referred to in paragraph (a) were commenced against him, the person cannot be found or he is not amenable to extradition proceedings.

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