Public Entertainments Act 1958 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · General
27. Powers of arrest
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The Licensing Officer or any police officer may arrest without warrant any person —
Licensing Officer
“Licensing Officer” means —(a)in sections 24, 25, 26, 27 and 31 —(i)where a power under any of those sections is exercised in connection with section 16, 17 or 18 — the Arts Entertainment Licensing Officer; and(ii)where a power under any of those sections is exercised in connection with any other provision of this Act — the appropriate Licensing Officer; and(b)in any other provision of this Act, the Public Entertainment Licensing Officer or the Arts Entertainment Licensing Officer, as the case may be;
whom the Licensing Officer or police officer reasonably suspects of committing or attempting to commit, or abetting any person to commit, any offence under this Act; and
who refuses to provide his or her name and address, or who provides a name and an address reasonably suspected of being false or who provides an address outside Singapore, or who is reasonably suspected of being likely to abscond.
Every person so arrested must be taken to a police station and after that be dealt with as if the person had been arrested under section 65 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010.[18