Singapore legislation
Section 75
Section 75
Security for good behaviour from habitual offenders
Whenever it appears to a District Court or Magistrate’s Court that any person —
is a habitual robber, housebreaker or thief or a habitual receiver of stolen property;
habitually commits extortion or in order to commit extortion habitually puts or attempts to put persons in fear of injury;
habitually protects or harbours thieves;
is a habitual aider in the concealment or disposal of stolen property;
is a notorious bad liver or is a dangerous character; or
habitually consorts with robbers, housebreakers, thieves, prostitutes or persons who have no visible means of subsistence,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 one year as such District Court thinks fit to fix or not exceeding 6 months as such Magistrate’s Court thinks fit to fix. [74[Form 11.]