Singapore legislation
Clause 20
Clause 20
Miscellaneous amendments
The principal Act is amended —
by deleting the words “Government chemist” wherever they appear in sections 16 and 31(5) and substituting in each case the words “Scientific Officer in the Department of Scientific Services (including the Director and Deputy Director of Scientific Services)”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “controlled drug” in the second line of section 16 and in section 24(1)(c), the words “or controlled substances”;
by deleting the words “Government chemist certificate” in the section heading to section 16 and substituting the words “Certificate signed by Scientific Officer”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “controlled drug”, wherever they appear in sections 26(2), 27(3), 27(4) and the section heading to section 27, the words “, controlled substances”; and
by inserting, immediately after the words “30 years” wherever they appear in the Second Schedule relating to the following sections creating offences, the words “or imprisonment for life”:Sections 5 (sixth column), 6 (third and fourth columns) and 7 (third, fourth and sixth columns).