Singapore legislation

Clause 27

Powers after entering accident site premises, wreckage, etc.

(1)

After entering an accident site premises or a transport vehicle (or its wreckage) mentioned in section 26(1)(a) or (b), an investigator may, for the purpose of an investigation into a reportable matter involving those premises or that vehicle (as the case may be) and pursuant to an authorisation under section 23(4), do all or any of the following:

(a)

examine or observe any activity conducted in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage);

(b)

examine, take measurements of, conduct tests on, or take samples of, evidential material in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage);

(c)

take any photograph or film of the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage), or any thing in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage) that is evidential material;

(d)

operate equipment in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle in order to access evidential material;

(e)

in the case of evidential material that is equipment in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle, operate the evidential material;

(f)

search, without payment, the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage), and any thing in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage), for evidential material;

(g)

seize any thing which is found in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage) during the exercise of powers under this section that the investigator reasonably suspects is evidential material;

(h)

exercise such other powers as may be prescribed.

(2)

The power that an investigator may exercise under subsection (1)(d) or (e) in relation to an accident site or a transport vehicle (or its wreckage) includes the power —

(a)

to use a disc, tape or other storage device that is in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle and can be used with the equipment or in association with the equipment;

(b)

to operate electronic equipment in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle to put the relevant data in documentary form and remove the documents so produced from the site or vehicle; and

(c)

to operate electronic equipment in or on the place to transfer the relevant data to a disc, tape or other storage device that —

(i)

is brought to the accident site or the transport vehicle for the exercise of the power; or

(ii)

is in or on the accident site or the transport vehicle and the use of which for that purpose has been agreed in writing by the occupier of the accident site or transport vehicle, as the case may be,and to remove the disc, tape or other storage device from that site or vehicle, as the case may be.

(3)

The power that an investigator may exercise under subsection (1)(f) in relation to an accident site or a transport vehicle (or its wreckage) includes —

(a)

opening anything at the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage), or in the possession of an individual found in or on the site or the transport vehicle, that is locked and to inspect anything in it;

(b)

removing or causing to be removed an obstruction from the accident site or the transport vehicle (or its wreckage); and

(c)

digging up anything at the accident site, removing roofing material, wall or ceiling linings or floors of a building, or panels or other parts of the transport vehicle (or its wreckage).

(4)

If any thing was seized under subsection (1)(g), the thing must —

(a)

be returned to the person in whose possession it was when it was seized; or

(b)

if it is not reasonably practicable to return it to that person, be disposed of in such manner as the Director thinks fit,when the thing is no longer required for the purposes of an investigation.

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