Singapore legislation

Clause 24

of Drug Trafficking (Confiscation of Benefits) (Amendment) Bill

Clause 24

Amendment of section 43

Section 43 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “for the purpose of avoiding prosecution for a drug trafficking offence or the making or enforcement in his case of a confiscation order” in the 7th, 8th and 9th lines of subsection (1);

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “drug trafficking offence” in the 8th line of subsection (2), the words “or a foreign drug trafficking offence”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the word “knowing” in the 1st line of subsections (2) and (3), the words “or having reasonable grounds to believe”; and

(d)

by deleting “$100,000” in subsection (6) and substituting “$200,000”.