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24. Power on escape to pursue and arrest
Feedback & supportIf a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the employment agency inspector from whose custody the person escaped or was rescued may immediately pursue and arrest him or her in any place within Singapore and deal with that person as the employment agency inspector might have done on the original arrest.[19F
employment agency
Defined · s 2
“employment agency” means any agency or registry carried on or represented as being or intended to be carried on (whether for the purpose of gain or reward or not) for or in connection with the employment of persons in any capacity, but does not include any registry set up by an employer for the sole purpose of recruiting persons for employment on the employer’s own behalf;