Singapore legislation

Clause 28

New Chapter VIB

The Penal Code is amended by inserting, immediately after section 130C, the following Chapter:“Chapter VIBGENOCIDEGenocide130D. A person commits genocide who, with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, an ethnical, a racial or a religious group, commits any of the following acts:

(a)

killing members of the group;

(b)

causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c)

deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d)

imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or

(e)

forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.Punishment for genocide130E. Whoever commits genocide shall —

(a)

if the offence consists of the killing of any person, be punished with death; or

(b)

in any other case, be punished with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 20 years.”.

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