Clause 149

Whenever an order has been made under subsection (3) of section 140, section 141, 144 or 145 of this Ordinance for the detention of a woman or girl in a place of safety and it appears to the Director to be expedient in the interests of such woman or girl that she should be transferred from such place of safety to another place of safety within Singapore, it shall be lawful for the Director to issue an order that such woman or girl shall be so transferred:Provided that no woman or girl admitted into a place of safety in Singapore on the request in writing of her lawful guardian under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 145 of this Ordinance shall be so transferred from such place of safety except with the approval in writing of her lawful guardian.