57. Power to seize rice and other food

Terms defined in s 2

• police officer

  police officer

  Defined · s 2

  “police officer” includes an auxiliary police officer and a special police officer appointed in accordance with any written law for the time being in force;

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• public place

  public place

  Defined · s 2

  “public place” includes any highway, public street, public road, public park or garden, any sea beach, waterway, public bridge, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, any unalienated land, any rubber estate, any plantation, any land alienated for agricultural or mining purposes, any theatre or place of public entertainment of any kind or other place of general resort admission to which is obtained by payment or to which the public has access, and any open space to which for the time being the public has or is permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise;

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• security area

  security area

  Defined · s 2

  “security area” means any area in respect of which a proclamation under section 48 is for the time being in force;

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• security forces

  security forces

  Defined · s 2

  “security forces” includes the Singapore Police Force, the Special Constabulary, the auxiliary police force, the Singapore Armed Forces, any local forces established under any written law in force in Singapore, and any force which is a visiting force for the purposes of Part 1 of the Visiting Forces Act 1960 and in respect of whom all or any of the powers exercisable by the Singapore Armed Forces or their members under this Act have been made exercisable by an order made under any such law;

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