Singapore legislation

Clause 10

of Public Entertainments and Meetings (Amendment) Bill

Clause 10

Amendment of section 14

Section 14 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “fit and proper person to hold such licence” in subsection (2), the words “, having regard to the criteria and requirements mentioned in section 5(3)(a)”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:“(2A) Despite subsection (3A), the appropriate Licensing Officer may immediately suspend a licence if proceedings have commenced against the licensee, a responsible officer of the licensee or a person having substantial interest in, or control or direction over, the business of the licensee, for any offence —

(a)

specified in the Second Schedule; and (b)arising out of or in connection with any activity at an approved place specified in the licence,until the conclusion of those proceedings.”; and

(c)

by deleting subsections (5) and (6).

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