Singapore legislation
Section 64
Section 64
Appointment of Commercial Affairs Officers
(1)
The Minister may appoint such number of persons to be Commercial Affairs Officers as the Minister may think fit.
(2)
A Commercial Affairs Officer may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him or her to have been committed under any written law.
(3)
For the purposes of subsection (2) —
a Commercial Affairs Officer has all the powers of investigation conferred on police officers in relation to the investigation of offences under the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 or under such other written law as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe, and is deemed to be an officer not below the rank of inspector; and
section 25 applies to a Commercial Affairs Officer as if he or she were a police officer.
(4)
The Commissioner may confer on one or more Commercial Affairs Officers as the Commissioner may determine the powers of an Assistant Superintendent of Police under such written law as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe.
(5)
Apart from this section and section 25, this Act does not apply to a Commercial Affairs Officer.