Singapore legislation
Regulation 16
of Misuse of Drugs (Community Rehabilitation Centres) Regulations 2014
Regulation 16
Punishments for major offences
Subregulation 1
Where an inmate of a centre commits any major offence, any one or more of the following punishments may be imposed on that inmate:
a written warning, together with one or more of the other punishments for minor offences under regulation 15(1)(a) to (f);
a transfer to an approved institution for a period of time up to the remainder of the inmate’s period of detention, with or without —
deprivation of not more than 4 visits by relatives and friends of the inmate;
solitary confinement in a cell in an approved institution for a period not exceeding 7 days; or
corporal punishment not exceeding 6 strokes of the rattan.
Subregulation 2
Any punishment specified in paragraph (1)(b)(i), (ii) or (iii) must be carried out in the approved institution to which an inmate is ordered to be transferred under paragraph (1)(b), and if corporal punishment is to be carried out, only in accordance with the Misuse of Drugs (Approved Institutions) (Discipline) Regulations (Rg 5) as if that punishment was that referred to in regulation 10(3) of those Regulations.
Subregulation 3
Any punishment imposed under this regulation may be in addition to or in lieu of any other punishment which may be imposed under the Act or any other written law.