Singapore legislation

Clause 18

of Prisons (Amendment) Bill

Clause 18

Amendment of section 84

Section 84(2) of the Prisons Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (i), the following paragraphs:“(j)the early discharge of prisoners who become entitled to release on a date which falls on a Sunday or public holiday;

(ja)the release of prisoners on remission orders or on external placement orders and the due administration of such orders;

(jb)the classification of breaches of the mandatory aftercare conditions of remission orders to be serious breaches and minor breaches;”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “advisory committees” in paragraph (ka) and substituting the words “committees, however named, of an advisory nature,”.