Section 27
Powers of arrest
of Public Entertainments Act 1958
ActIn forceProvision 27 of 35
Section 27
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