Section 25

A police officer or a dormitory inspector may arrest without warrant any individual whom the police officer or dormitory inspector (as the case may be) reasonably suspects is committing or has committed an offence under section 7.

For the purposes of this section, an officer or a member of a body corporate or an unincorporated association or a partner of a partnership that is liable for an offence under section 7 by virtue of section 27 is to be regarded as having committed the offence.

A police officer or a dormitory inspector making an arrest without warrant must, without unnecessary delay and subject to subsection (4), take or send the individual arrested before a Magistrate’s Court.

A dormitory inspector must not detain in custody any individual arrested without warrant for longer than is reasonable in the circumstances, and the period must not in any case exceed 48 hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate’s Court.

An individual who has been arrested by a police officer or a dormitory inspector under this section may be released on bail, or on the individual’s own bond, by a police officer or dormitory inspector.

The provisions of Division 5 of Part 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 apply to any bail or bond granted under this section; and for this purpose, any reference in those provisions to “officer”, “police officer” or “police officer of or above the rank of sergeant” is to be read as a reference to a dormitory inspector.

Sections 21A to 21G of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990 apply, with the necessary modifications, to an arrest under this section by a dormitory inspector for or in relation to an offence.

In this section, a reference to an offence under section 7 includes a reference to an abetment of, or a conspiracy or an attempt to commit, the offence.

To avoid doubt, nothing in this section affects a police officer’s powers or duties under the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.