Singapore legislation
Clause 4
Clause 4
Prohibition on smoking in cinemas, theatres and specified buildings
(1)
Any person who smokes —
in any cinema or theatre at any time during which it is open to the public; or
in any specified building in contravention of any notification issued under section 3 of this Act,shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or public health auxiliary or by any public officer authorised in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner and taken before a Magistrate’s Court and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section or of any other written law for the time being in force, any police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer who, having effected an arrest in accordance with the provisions of this section, is satisfied as to the identity, name and place of residence of the person arrested, may in his discretion instead of taking such person before a Court or to a police station serve upon such person a notice requiring such person to attend at the Court described at the hour and on the date specified in such notice and such notice shall be in such form as may be required under section 9 of this Act.
(3)
For the purpose of satisfying himself as to the identity of the person arrested, such police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer may require the person arrested to furnish such evidence of identity as he may deem necessary.
(4)
A duplicate copy of the notice referred to in subsection (2) of this section shall be prepared by the police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer, as the case may be, and by him, if so required by a Court, produced to such Court.
(5)
On an accused person appearing before a Court in pursuance of such a notice, the Court shall take cognizance of the offence alleged and shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section.
(6)
If a person upon whom such a notice has been served as aforesaid fails to appear before a Court in accordance therewith, the Court shall thereupon issue a warrant for the arrest of such person.
(7)
Upon a person arrested in pursuance of a warrant issued under subsection (6) of this section being produced before it, a Court shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section and shall at the conclusion of such proceedings call upon him to show cause why he should not be punished for failing to attend in compliance with the notice served upon him and if cause be not shown may order him to pay such penalty not exceeding one thousand dollars as the Court thinks fit or may commit him to prison for a term not exceeding one month.