Singapore legislation
Section 4
Section 4
Prohibition on smoking in cinemas, theatres, specified buildings and in buses
(1)
Any person who smokes —
in any cinema or theatre at any time during which it is open to the public;
in any specified building in contravention of any notification issued under section 3; or
in any bus while it is carrying fare-paying passengers on a scheduled or regular route,shall be guilty of an offence and may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or public health auxiliary or by any public officer authorised in writing in that behalf by the Commissioner and taken before a Magistrate’s Court and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500.
(2)
Notwithstanding subsection (1) or any other written law for the time being in force, any police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer who, having effected an arrest in accordance with this section, is satisfied as to the identity, name and place of residence of the person arrested, may in his discretion instead of taking that person before a Court or to a police station serve upon that person a notice requiring that person to attend at the Court described at the hour and on the date specified in the notice and the notice shall be in such form as may be required under section 9.
(3)
For the purpose of satisfying himself as to the identity of the person arrested, the police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer may require the person arrested to furnish such evidence of identity as he may consider necessary.
(4)
A duplicate of the notice referred to in subsection (2) shall be prepared by the police officer, public health auxiliary or public officer, as the case may be, and produced by him, if so required by a Court, to the Court.
(5)
On an accused person appearing before a Court in pursuance of such a notice, the Court shall take cognisance of the offence alleged and shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (1).
(6)
If a person upon whom such a notice has been served fails to appear before a Court in accordance therewith, the Court shall thereupon issue a warrant for the arrest of that person.
(7)
Upon a person arrested in pursuance of a warrant issued under subsection (6) being produced before it, a Court shall proceed as though he were produced before it in pursuance of subsection (1) and shall at the conclusion of such proceedings call upon him to show cause why he should not be punished for failing to attend in compliance with the notice served upon him and if cause is not shown may order him to pay such penalty not exceeding $1,000 as the Court thinks fit or may commit him to prison for a term not exceeding one month.