Singapore legislation
Clause 3
Clause 3
New Division 3 of Part IV
The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 40, the following Division:“Division 3 — Powers of investigation for offences related to statement recordingPowers of investigation of certain law enforcement officers when recording statements40A.—
An officer of a prescribed law enforcement agency (other than the Singapore Police Force) who —
is authorised by any written law other than this section to exercise the powers of a police officer under this Code in relation to an investigation into an arrestable offence when investigating an offence under that written law; and
records a statement during such an investigation by making an audiovisual recording,may investigate any offence under regulations made under section 428(2)(b) committed in relation to that audiovisual recording, and is, by virtue of this section, taken to have the same powers mentioned in paragraph (a), despite anything to the contrary in that other written law.(2) For the purposes of this section and section 40B, the Minister charged with the responsibility for any law enforcement agency may, by order in the Gazette, prescribe the law enforcement agency as a prescribed law enforcement agency.Officer deemed to be of certain rank40B. For the purpose of section 40A, when an officer of a prescribed law enforcement agency is exercising the powers pursuant to that section when investigating an offence in relation to an audiovisual recording, the officer is deemed to be a police officer not below the rank of inspector of police.”.