Clause 12

Where under the provisions of any law in force in Malaysia a Magistrate or a Magistrate’s Court has issued a warrant or summons authorising the arrest of a person or requiring any person to appear before any court in Malaysia, and such person is or is believed to be in Singapore, a Magistrate in Singapore, if satisfied that such warrant or summons was duly issued in Malaysia, may endorse the warrant or summons, and such warrant or summons may then be executed or served, as the case may be, on such person as if it were a warrant or summons lawfully issued in Singapore under the provisions of this Code.(2) Where under the provisions of any law in force in Malaysia corresponding to subsection (1) of this section a warrant or summons issued by a Magistrate or a Magistrate’s Court in Singapore has been endorsed by a Magistrate in Malaysia and executed or served on the person named in the warrant or summons, such warrant or summons shall for the purposes of this Code be deemed to have been as validly executed or served as if such execution or service had been effected in Singapore.(3) Where a warrant has been executed in Singapore pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the person arrested shall be produced as soon as possible before a Magistrate in Singapore, who shall, if satisfied that he is the person specified in the warrant, direct that the arrested person be transferred forthwith in custody to the appropriate court in Malaysia; and any such person shall while in such custody, be deemed for all purposes to be in lawful custody:Provided that such Magistrate may, if for reasons to be recorded by him he is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice so to do and if the case is one in which bail may lawfully be granted, release the person arrested on bail conditional on his appearing before the appropriate court in Malaysia at a time to be specified in the bond and bail bond.(4) Where any person has been served with a summons pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, he shall attend at the appropriate court at the time specified in the summons, unless he can satisfy such court that he cannot reasonably do so.”.