Criminal Procedure Code 2010 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Arrest and Bail and Processes to Compel Appearance
65. Arrest on refusal to give name and residence to police officer
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A police officer may arrest any person who is accused of committing, or who commits in the view or presence of the police officer, a non-arrestable offence if, on the demand of the police officer, the person refuses to give his or her name, residential address or unique identification number.
police officer
“police officer” has the meaning given by the Police Force Act 2004;
A police officer may arrest such a person who gives a residential address outside Singapore, or a name, residential address or unique identification number which the police officer has reason to believe is false.
Any person arrested under this section must either —
be brought to a police station as soon as reasonably practicable and may, if required by a police officer of or above the rank of sergeant, be released upon signing a bond with or without surety to appear before a Magistrate; or
subject to subsection (3A), be released without being brought to a police station upon verification of his or her name, residential address and unique identification number.
Where a person is arrested under this section as well as for an arrestable offence, he or she may, instead of being released under subsection (3)(b), be brought to a police station in respect of the arrestable offence after the verification of his or her name, residential address and unique identification number.
arrestable offence
“arrestable offence” and “arrestable case” mean, respectively, an offence for which and a case in which a police officer may ordinarily arrest without warrant according to the third column of the First Schedule or under any other written law;
If the person refuses or is unable to sign the bond as required under subsection (3)(a), the person must, within 24 hours of the arrest (excluding the time necessary for the journey to a Magistrate’s Court), be brought before a Magistrate’s Court.
court
“court” means the Court of Appeal, the General Division of the High Court, a Family Court, a Youth Court, a District Court or a Magistrate’s Court (as the case may be) which exercises criminal jurisdiction;
The person who is brought before a Magistrate’s Court under subsection (4) may —
be ordered to be detained in custody until the person can be tried; or
if so required by the Magistrate, be released upon signing a bond, with or without surety, to appear before a Magistrate’s Court.
In this section, “unique identification number” means —
a person’s identity card number, passport number or the number of any other similar document of identity issued by a government authority as evidence of the person’s nationality or place of residence, and includes a foreign identification number; or
where a person (who is a Singapore citizen or a permanent resident) is a minor who has not yet been issued with an identity card number, the person’s birth certificate number.