Section 74

any person is taking precautions to conceal his presence within Singapore and that there is reason to believe that that person is taking those precautions with a view to committing an offence;

there is within Singapore a person who has no ostensible means of subsistence or who cannot give a satisfactory account of himself; or

there is within Singapore any person who either orally or in writing disseminates or attempts to disseminate or in any way abets the dissemination of —

any seditious matter, that is to say, any matter the publication of which is punishable under the Sedition Act [Cap. 290]; or (ii)any matter concerning a Judge which amounts to criminal intimidation or defamation under the Penal Code [Cap. 224], the Court may, in the manner hereinafter provided, require that person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond with sureties for his good behaviour for such period not exceeding 6 months as the Court thinks fit to fix and in the event of his failing to do so may order him to execute such a bond. [Form 11.]