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

27. Directions to move on from specified surrounding area of protected area or protected place

(1)

An authorised officer of a protected area or a protected place may ask a person in the specified surrounding area of that protected area or that protected place to do one or more of the following:

(a)

provide the person’s name and residential address;

(b)

furnish evidence of the person’s identity;

(c)

provide the person’s reason for being in the specified surrounding area.

(2)

If a person in the specified surrounding area fails to comply with any request under subsection (1) or satisfy the authorised officer that the person has a good and lawful reason to be in the specified surrounding area, the authorised officer may, by written direction, require the person to do one or more of the following:

(a)

leave the specified surrounding area;

(b)

remove from the specified surrounding area any vehicle or vessel owned or operated by, or any personal property of, that person;

(c)

not return to or be in the specified surrounding area for a period specified in the written direction.

(3)

An authorised officer’s request under subsection (1) or direction under subsection (2) may be given to a person or a group of persons.

(4)

Every person in the specified surrounding area of a protected area or a protected place must comply with every request under subsection (1), and every direction under subsection (2), given to that person or any group of persons comprising that person.

(5)

Any person who contravenes subsection (4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.

Terms defined in s 2

authorised officer
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“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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personal property
Defined · s 2
“personal property”, in relation to a person, means any thing worn or carried by the person or apparently in the immediate control of the person;
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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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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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vehicle
Defined · s 2
“vehicle” means any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise;
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vessel
Defined · s 2
“vessel” includes any ship, boat, craft (including submersible craft), floating platform or air‑cushioned vehicle, whether mechanically propelled or otherwise, that is used to navigate any body of water;
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