Singapore legislation

Section 27

of Public Entertainments Act 1958

Section 27

Powers of arrest

Amended by32/201415/2010

(1)

The Licensing Officer or any police officer may arrest without warrant any person —

(a)

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

(b)

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.

Amended by32/2014

(2)

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

Amended by15/2010