Singapore legislation
Regulation 7
of Criminal Procedure Code (Corrective Training and Preventive Detention) Regulations 2010
Regulation 7
Punishment by Superintendent for aggravated prison offences
Subregulation 1
The Superintendent may punish any prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of an aggravated prison offence as specified in regulation 9 by ordering him to undergo one or more of the following punishments:
corporal punishment not exceeding 12 strokes with a rattan;
confinement in a punishment cell for a term not exceeding 7 days;
postponement for a period of not more than 30 days at any one time, of the date on which the prisoner becomes eligible under regulation 5 for release on licence;
reduction in grade or postponement of promotion for such period as may be determined by the Superintendent.
Subregulation 2
Where the Superintendent has imposed any punishment upon any prisoner under paragraph (1), the Superintendent shall notify the Commissioner of the facts of the case and the punishment imposed on the prisoner not later than 7 days after imposition of the punishment.
Subregulation 3
The Commissioner may within 14 days, or such longer period as may be required in exceptional cases, after being notified by the Superintendent under paragraph (2) —
confirm any punishment imposed by the Superintendent under paragraph (1); or (b)vary any punishment imposed by the Superintendent under paragraph (1), including enhancing, reducing or substituting the punishment imposed by the Superintendent or imposing such additional punishment that could have been awarded by the Superintendent under that paragraph.
Subregulation 4
Any punishment imposed by the Superintendent under paragraph (1) shall not be carried out until confirmed, or varied, by the Commissioner under paragraph (3).
Subregulation 5
The Superintendent shall enter in a register to be open to the inspection of the Visiting Justices a record of the punishments imposed by him and by the Commissioner under paragraph (3) upon prisoners, showing, in respect of each prisoner punished, the name of the prisoner, the nature of his offence and the extent of his punishment.