Singapore legislation

Regulation 30

of Internal Security (Detained Persons) Rules

Regulation 30

Keeping books and records

Amended byS 617/2023 wef 08/09/2023

The Superintendent of a place of detention must keep or cause to be kept —

(a)

an admission register containing a record of the following information of all detained persons committed to the place of detention:

(i)

the date of commitment;

(ii)

the date at which such detention will lapse;

(iii)

the name, age, height, weight, particular marks and general appearance of the detained person;

(iv)

any other particulars that the officer-in-charge of the place of detention may require;

(b)

a detained person’s effects book or record in the approved form;

(c)

a detained persons’ punishment book or record, in which the Superintendent must record the following:

(i)

the name of every detained person in the place of detention who has been punished for an offence; (ii)the punishment inflicted on the detained person;

(iii)

the name of the officer ordering the punishment;

(iv)

the certificate of the medical officer for the place of detention as to whether the detained person is physically fit to undergo the punishment ordered;

(v)

the date on which the punishment is inflicted;

(d)

an official visitors book;

(e)

a list of books and documents committed to the Superintendent’s care; and

(f)

such other books or records as the officer-in-charge of the place of detention may direct.