Singapore legislation

Section 52

of Broadcasting Act 1994

Section 52

Power of arrest and search

Amended by22/2016

(1)

The Chief Executive or any employee of the Authority the Chief Executive authorises to act under this section may arrest without warrant —

(a)

any person found committing or attempting to commit or employing or aiding any person to commit an arrestable offence under this Act; or

(b)

any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that the person has been guilty of an arrestable offence under this Act,and may search any person so arrested, except that a female must not be searched except by a female.

Amended by22/2016

(2)

Every person so arrested must, together with any article as to which an offence may have been committed or attempted to be committed, be taken to a police station.

(3)

For the purposes of this section, offences punishable under sections 30, 46, 47 and 48 are deemed to be arrestable offences within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.

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