Singapore legislation
Regulation 3
Regulation 3
Award of demerit points
Subregulation 1
The Licensing Officer must award demerit points in accordance with these Rules against a licensee who provides any specified public entertainment and who —
is convicted of, or has accepted an offer to compound, a demerit points offence committed or allegedly committed before, on or after 1 August 2017 by the licensee; or
has consented to have a demerit points offence committed on or after 1 August 2017 taken into consideration by a court for the purposes of sentencing the licensee for the commission of any other offence under the Act or any other written law.
Subregulation 2
The number of demerit points to be awarded against a licensee for a demerit points offence committed or allegedly committed by the licensee is the number set out in the second column in the applicable table in the Second Schedule corresponding to —
the specified public entertainment provided by the licensee; and
the licence condition set out in the first column of the table which is contravened or allegedly contravened by the licensee.
Subregulation 3
Every demerit point awarded under this rule against a licensee for a demerit points offence must be entered by the Licensing Officer into a register (called in these Rules the demerit points register).
Subregulation 4
Demerit points awarded under this rule are cancelled only after the demerit points are reckoned for the purposes of cancelling a licence under section 14(4) of the Act on the ground specified in section 14(1)(e) of the Act; and those demerit points in the demerit points register must immediately be cancelled with the cancellation of the licence.