Singapore legislation
Clause 4
of Restrictions on the Supply, Distribution and Use of Petroleum and Electricity Bill
Clause 4
Powers of arrest
(1)
Regulations made under this Act may provide for empowering such authorities, persons or classes of persons as may be specified in the regulations to arrest without warrant any person who commits an offence and take such person to a Magistrate’s Court or police station to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 113).
(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, the regulations may empower any person who has effected an arrest and is satisfied as to the identity, name and place of residence of the person arrested, in his discretion, instead of taking him before a Court or to a police station, to serve upon the person arrested a notice, in such form as may be prescribed requiring the person to attend at a Court described at the hour and on the date specified in the notice.
(3)
For the purpose of satisfying himself as to the identity of the person arrested, the person making the arrest may require the person arrested to furnish such evidence of identity as he may require.
(4)
A duplicate copy of the notice referred to in subsection (2) shall be prepared by the person making the arrest and produced by him to a Court if so required by the Court.
(5)
On an accused person appearing before a Court in pursuance of such a notice, the Court shall take cognisance of the offence alleged and shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (1).
(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 a person.
(7)
Upon a person arrested in pursuance of a warrant issued under subsection (6) being produced before it, the Court shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (1) 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 is not shown, may order him to pay such penalty not exceeding two thousand dollars as the Court thinks fit or may commit him to prison for a term not exceeding two months.
(8)
The regulations may provide for empowering such authorities, persons or classes of persons as may be specified in the regulations to cancel the notice referred to in subsection (2) at any time before the date specified in the notice for the person to whom the notice is directed to appear in Court.