Singapore legislation

Section 24

of Miscellaneous Offences(Public Order and Nuisance) Act 1906

Section 24

Improper management of house of public resort

Any person who being the keeper of any house licensed under any written law as a public house or as a retail liquor shop or which is used as a place of public entertainment or public resort —

(a)

knowingly permits any unlawful games or gaming therein;

(b)

knowingly permits prostitutes or persons of notoriously bad character or drunken and disorderly persons to assemble or continue in or upon the person’s premises;

(c)

knowingly allows the deposit therein of goods having reasonable cause to believe them to be stolen; or

(d)

does or permits any act in contravention of the person’s licence,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, and to the forfeiture of the person’s licence, if any.

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