Singapore legislation
Clause 10
Clause 10
Warrant to search for or remove child or young person
(1)
If it appears to a Magistrate’s Court on information or complaint made by any of the persons mentioned in section 20 that there is reasonable cause to believe —
that any child or young person has been or is being assaulted, ill-treated or neglected in any place within the jurisdiction of the Court, in a manner likely to cause the child or young person unnecessary suffering or to be injurious to his health; or
that an offence under this Part or any offence involving bodily injury to a child or young person has been or is being committed in respect of the child or young person,the Court may issue a warrant —
authorising any police officer named therein to search for the child or young person and if it appears to the officer that the child or young person has been or is being so assaulted, ill-treated or neglected or that any such offence has been or is being committed in respect of the child or young person, to take to and detain him in a place of safety until he can be brought before a court; or
authorising any police officer to remove the child or young person, with or without search, to a place of safety and detain him there until he can be brought before a court,and the court before whom the child or young person is brought may commit him to the care of a relative or other fit person in like manner as if the person in whose care he was had been committed for trial for an offence under this Part, and section 8 shall apply.
(2)
A Magistrate’s Court issuing a warrant under this section may, by the same warrant, cause any person accused of any offence in respect of the child or young person to be apprehended and brought before the Court and proceedings to be taken against that person according to law.
(3)
Any police officer authorised by warrant under this section to search for any child or young person or to remove any child or young person, with or without search, may enter, by the use of force if necessary, any house, building or other place specified in the warrant and may remove the child or young person therefrom.
(4)
Every warrant issued under this section shall be addressed to and executed by a police officer who shall be accompanied by the person laying the information, if that person so desires, unless the Magistrate’s Court by which the warrant is issued otherwise directs and may also, if the Court by which the warrant is issued so directs, be accompanied by a Government Medical Officer.
(5)
It shall not be necessary in any information or warrant under this section to name the child or young person, but, in such case, the child or young person shall be described as particularly as the knowledge of the informant or the Magistrate’s Court permits.