Singapore legislation

Regulation 20

of Misuse of Drugs (Community Rehabilitation Centres) Regulations 2014

Regulation 20

Offences

Amended byS 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 263/2026 wef 01/05/2026S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024

Subregulation 1

Amended byS 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024

Any person who, without the authority of the Act, these Regulations or the express permission of the Commissioner of Prisons —

(a)

conveys or supplies, or causes to be conveyed or supplied, to any inmate, or hides or places for the use of any inmate, any unauthorised article;

(b)

brings, or attempts by any means to introduce, into any centre, or places, or attempts to place, where inmates work, any unauthorised article;

(c)

brings, or attempts to bring, out of any centre, or conveys from any inmate, any unauthorised article;

(d)

makes any audio or visual recording in any centre; (da)communicates with any inmate in circumstances where the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the communication is likely to encourage, incite or agitate any inmate to commit an offence (including any offence listed in the Schedule), and thereby encourages, incites or agitates an inmate to commit an offence (including any offence listed in the Schedule); or

(e)

does any act, or omits to do any act which he is required by law to do, which he knows or ought reasonably to know is likely to have any of the following effects, and does have such effect:

(i)

prejudicing the safe custody of inmates at any centre, the safety of any person at that centre or the security of the centre;

(ii)

prejudicing the maintenance of good order and discipline at any centre,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

Subregulation 2

Amended byS 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024

Every member of staff of a centre who, without the authority of the Act, these Regulations or the express permission of the Commissioner of Prisons —

(a)

knowingly permits any unauthorised article to be sold to or on behalf of, or to be received or used by or on behalf of, any inmate;

(b)

knowingly lends or gives to any inmate any authorised article;

(c)

knowingly permits any unauthorised article to be brought out of any centre, or to be conveyed from any inmate;

(d)

knowingly permits the making of any audio or visual recording at the centre; or

(e)

knowingly permits any act or omission which he knows or ought reasonably to know is likely to have any of the following effects, and does have such effect:

(i)

prejudicing the safe custody of inmates at the centre, the safety of any person at the centre or the security of the centre;

(ii)

prejudicing the maintenance of good order and discipline at the centre,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

Subregulation 3

Amended byS 263/2026 wef 01/05/2026S 485/2024 wef 01/06/2024

In this regulation, “unauthorised article” means —

(a)

any letter or document;

(b)

any electronic device;

(c)

any intoxicating substance, controlled drug, psychoactive substance or stimulant;

(ca)any Part 3A product;

(d)

any food or drink;

(e)

any item of clothing;

(f)

money; or

(g)

any article not specifically authorised by the Commissioner of Prisons to be brought into or out of a centre.