Singapore legislation

Section 30

of Miscellaneous Offences(Public Order and Nuisance) Act 1906

Section 30

Search of premises for idle and disorderly person and rogue and vagabond

A Magistrate before whom information has been duly sworn that any person described to be an idle and disorderly person, or a rogue and vagabond, is or is reasonably suspected to be harboured or concealed in any hotel, boarding house, lodging house or eating house, may authorise any police officer to enter at any time into any such hotel, boarding house, lodging house or eating house and to arrest every such idle and disorderly person, rogue and vagabond found therein.