Singapore legislation

Regulation 4

of Criminal Procedure Code (Reformative Training) Regulations 2018

Regulation 4

Detention in reformative training centre

Subregulation 1

Subject to paragraph (2), a person sentenced to reformative training must be detained in a reformative training centre until a Committee for the centre releases the person under a supervision order.

Subregulation 2

A Committee for a reformative training centre —

(a)

may release, under a supervision order, a person sentenced to reformative training, only after —

(i)

in the case of a person sentenced to reformative training on or after 31 October 2018, the person has served the minimum period of detention as specified by the court under section 305(6) of the Code; or

(ii)

in the case of a person sentenced to reformative training before that date, the person has been detained in the reformative training centre for a period of 18 months after the person’s RTC date; and

(b)

must release, under a supervision order, a person sentenced to reformative training, after the person has been detained in the reformative training centre for a period of 3 years after the person’s RTC date.

Subregulation 3

For the purposes of section 305(8)(a) of the Code, the period of detention under a sentence of reformative training must not extend beyond 54 months after the date the sentence takes effect, in any case where the person sentenced to reformative training is recalled pursuant to a recall order, after the person was released under a supervision order.