Singapore legislation
Clause 3
Clause 3
Amendment of section 22
Section 22 of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act is hereby amended —
by deleting the proviso to subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“Provided that no such statement shall be admissible or used as aforesaid if the making of the statement appears to the court to have been caused by any inducement, threat or promise having reference to the charge against such person, proceeding from a person in authority and sufficient, in the opinion of the court, to give such person grounds which would appear to him reasonable for supposing that by making it he would gain any advantage or avoid any evil of a temporal nature in reference to the proceeding against him.”; and
by deleting subsections (2) and (3) thereof.