Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of Dangerous Fireworks (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

New section 3A

The Dangerous Fireworks Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 3, the following section:“Prohibition on sale, transport, delivery, distribution or import of fireworks3A.—

(1)

No person shall sell, transport, send, deliver, distribute or import any dangerous fireworks.(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than 6 months and not more than 2 years and shall also, subject to section 231 of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68), be punished with caning with not more than 6 strokes.(3) When any offence under subsection (1) committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against accordingly.(4) Where any dangerous fireworks is found in any business premises or in any vehicle used for the purposes of such business, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that the dangerous fireworks is for sale, transport, delivery or distribution by the owner of the business.(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), “business premises” means a shop or a building, or part thereof, where retail or wholesale trading is carried on.(6) Section 3(2) shall apply to subsection (1) of this section as it applies to subsection (1) of that section.”.

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