Singapore legislation
Clause 111
Clause 111
Power to make rules
(1)
It shall be lawful for the Minister from time to time to make rules —
for the government, management and regulation of military prisons and detention barracks;
for the appointment and removal and powers of inspectors, visitors, governors and officers thereof;
for the labour of military or other prisoners and soldiers undergoing detention therein, and for enabling such prisoners or soldiers to earn, by special industry and good conduct, a remission of a portion of their sentence;
for the safe custody of such prisoners or soldiers and the maintenance of discipline among them, and the punishment by personal correction, restraint or otherwise of offences committed by such prisoners or soldiers; and
for the temporary release, in such cases, for such periods and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the rules, of such prisoners or soldiers.
(2)
Such rules shall not authorise corporal punishment to be inflicted for any offence, nor render the imprisonment or detention more severe than it is under the law in force for the time being in any civil prison in Singapore.
(3)
Where any person has been temporarily released from a military prison or detention barrack in accordance with rules made under this section, the currency of any sentence which he may be serving shall be suspended for a period beginning with and including the day after that on which he was released and ending with and including the day on which he returns to the prison or detention barrack or is otherwise taken into custody under this subsection, and, if any such person fails to comply with any of the conditions subject to which he was released or to return at the expiration of the period for which he was released, he may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or taken into military custody, and may be kept in custody, whether civil or military, until he is taken back to the prison or detention barrack, and, unless proceedings are taken against him for an offence under section 17 or 20, he shall be liable to such punishment as may be prescribed by the rules, which may include forfeiture of all ordinary pay for every day during which he was at large after the expiration of the said period.
(4)
All rules made under this section shall be published in the Gazette.