Broadcasting Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 11 · Offences and Penalties
52. Power of arrest and search
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The Chief Executive or any employee of the Authority the Chief Executive authorises to act under this section may arrest without warrant —
Chief Executive
“Chief Executive”, in relation to the Authority, means the Chief Executive of the Authority appointed under section 40(1) of the Info-communications Media Development Authority Act 2016, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;
any person found committing or attempting to commit or employing or aiding any person to commit an arrestable offence under this Act; or
any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that the person has been guilty of an arrestable offence under this Act,and may search any person so arrested, except that a female must not be searched except by a female.
Every person so arrested must, together with any article as to which an offence may have been committed or attempted to be committed, be taken to a police station.
For the purposes of this section, offences punishable under sections 30, 46, 47 and 48 are deemed to be arrestable offences within the meaning of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.