Singapore legislation

Clause 19

New sections 142A and 142B

The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 142, the following sections:“Designation of Minister of State and Parliamentary Secretary to hear appeals142A.—

(1)

Where pursuant to any provision of this Act an appeal may be made to the Minister, the appropriate Minister may designate —

(a)

any Minister of State for his Ministry; or

(b)

any Parliamentary Secretary to his Ministry,to hear and determine such appeal in his place.(2) In this section, the references to a Minister of State and a Parliamentary Secretary include, respectively, references to a Senior Minister of State and a Senior Parliamentary Secretary.Authorisation of security officers to regulate traffic142B.—

(1)

The Deputy Commissioner of Police or the Authority may, for the purpose of assisting him or it in the regulation of traffic under any provision of this Act, authorise, subject to such restrictions as he or it may impose, such number of security officers as he or it thinks necessary to regulate traffic under that provision.(2) Every security officer who is authorised to regulate traffic pursuant to subsection (1) shall, when in uniform and while carrying out his duties in regulating traffic under any provision of this Act, comply with such directions as the Deputy Commissioner of Police or the Authority (as the case may be) may give.”.

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