Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Evidence, Enforcement and Punishment
15. Certificate of corresponding law
Feedback & supportA document purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of a country outside Singapore and purporting to state the terms of a corresponding law in force in that country is to be admitted in evidence, in any proceedings for an offence under this Act, on its production by the prosecution without further proof.
corresponding law
“corresponding law” means a law stated in a certificate purporting to be issued by or on behalf of the government of a country outside Singapore to be a law providing for the control and regulation in that country of —(a)the production, supply, use, export and import of drugs and other substances in accordance with the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs signed at New York on 30 March 1961; or(b)the production, supply, use, export and import of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs pursuant to any treaty, convention or other agreement or arrangement to which the government of that country and the Government of Singapore are for the time being parties;
Such document is conclusive evidence that —
it is issued by or on behalf of the government of that country;
the terms of that law are as stated in the document; and
any fact stated in the document as constituting an offence under that law does constitute such offence.