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Clause 4

of Singapore Armed Forces (Amendment) Bill

Clause 4

New sections 96A and 96B

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 96 thereof the following new sections: —“Certificate relating to controlled drug96A.—

(1)

A certificate purporting to be signed by a Government or a Singapore Armed Forces pharmacist or chemist and purporting to relate to a controlled drug shall be admitted in evidence, in any proceedings under this Act for an offence under section 33 of this Act or an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1973 (Act 5 of 1973), on its production by the prosecution without proof of signature and, until the contrary is proved, such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of all matters contained therein.(2) In this section, the expression “controlled drug” has the same meaning as in the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1973.Urine test96B.—

(1)

A person subject to military law who has been required by a lawful order or a general order to provide a specimen of his urine for a urine test may, within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, apply for a second test of the specimen of his urine which is kept for that purpose in accordance with any regulations made under this Act.(2) If —

(a)

a person is convicted by a subordinate military court as a result of a urine test of the offence of smoking, administering to himself or otherwise consuming a controlled drug under section 33 of this Act or paragraph (b) of section 6 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1973; and

(b)

as a result of a second test which has been conducted on the application of such person under subsection (1) of this section it is found that there is no controlled drug in the specimen of his urine,the Armed Forces Council shall quash the finding of that offence made by the subordinate military court and the sentence imposed by the subordinate military court for that offence.”.

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