Singapore legislation
Section 221
Section 221
Provisions as to execution of sentences of High Court other than sentences of death
With regard to sentences passed by the High Court other than sentence of death the following provisions shall take effect:
as soon as conveniently may be after each assizes a copy of the calendar of sentences under the hand of a Judge and the seal of the court shall be sent to the Director of Prisons and another similar copy to the Minister who shall file it;
the calendar shall be a sufficient warrant and full authority for receiving and detaining all prisoners and for carrying into effect all sentences described in it;
in the event of a calendar kept by the Director of Prisons being destroyed or lost the Director shall forthwith report the loss to the Minister who shall apply to the court for a fresh copy which shall be issued as above required;
the copy certified as a true copy under the hand of the Registrar and under the seal of the court shall have the same effect as the one first given to the Director of Prisons;
at the end of each day’s sittings of the High Court at assizes the Registrar shall draw up a certificate in the form in Schedule B of all sentences passed by the court during the day, setting out the names of the persons sentenced and the sentences passed on them, and shall sign it and hand it to the Director of Prisons or an officer appointed by him for that purpose who shall thereupon receive into his custody the persons named in the certificate; [Form 39.](f)the certificate shall be full authority to the Director of Prisons or such other officer as before mentioned for receiving into his custody all prisoners named in it and for carrying out all sentences named in it until the calendar of sentences of the assizes is delivered. [220