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Infrastructure Protection Act 2017 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Protected Areas and Protected Places

26. Application of sections 27 and 28

(1)

Sections 27 and 28 only apply to the specified surrounding area (if any) of a protected area or a protected place.

(2)

An authorised officer of a protected area or a protected place may exercise a power under sections 27 and 28 in any specified surrounding area of that protected area or that protected place —

(a)

in the case where the specified surrounding area is a public place, at any time; and

(b)

in any other case, only with the consent of the owner or occupier of the specified surrounding area.

Terms defined in s 2

authorised officer
Defined · s 2
“authorised officer”, for a protected area or a protected place, means —(a)a police officer;(b)an officer or a senior military expert of the Singapore Armed Forces;(c)a soldier of the Singapore Armed Forces who is deployed to guard that protected area or that protected place;(d)an officer or a member of a visiting force lawfully present in Singapore who is deployed to guard that protected area or that protected place under the terms of any treaty, agreement or arrangement to which the Government is a party;(e)a prison officer (as defined in section 2 of the Prisons Act 1933) who is deployed to guard that protected area or that protected place;(f)an immigration officer (as defined in section 2 of the Immigration Act 1959) who is deployed to guard that protected area or that protected place;(g)an auxiliary police officer who is deployed to guard that protected area or that protected place; or(h)a security officer who is authorised by the Commissioner of Police under section 6(1) and is deployed to guard that protected area or that protected place;
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occupier
Defined · s 2
“occupier”, for any premises, means the person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of the premises;
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protected area
Defined · s 2
“protected area” means any premises in Singapore declared in a protected area order to be a protected area;
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protected place
Defined · s 2
“protected place” means any premises in Singapore declared in a protected place order to be a protected place;
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public place
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“public place” means any premises to which the public, or a section of the public, ordinarily has access, whether on payment, by invitation, as of right, or by express or implied permission;
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specified surrounding area
Defined · s 2
“specified surrounding area”, for a protected area or a protected place, means any surrounding area of that protected area or that protected place that is specified in the protected area order (for that protected area) or the protected place order (for that protected place) for the purposes of sections 27 and 28;
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