Singapore legislation
Regulation 41
of Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Shooting and Paintball Ranges) Regulations 2025
Regulation 41
Special measures for shooting range with firearm shooting arena
Subregulation 1
A licensed shooting range operator of an approved shooting range with a firearm shooting arena must take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that every individual is, before entering and before leaving the approved shooting range, required to —
walk through a screening detector;
pass the individual’s personal property through an X‑ray machine;
allow a police officer or an approved person to pass a hand‑held scanner in close proximity to the individual’s personal property;
allow the police officer or approved person to inspect the individual’s personal property;
produce or empty the contents of any bag, container or other receptacle in the possession or apparently in the immediate control of the individual;
turn out the individual’s pockets or remove all articles from the individual’s clothing, and allow the police officer or approved person to inspect the articles;
remove any coat, jacket, gloves, shoes or hat or any other thing worn or carried by the individual, which may be conveniently removed if worn and that is specified by the police officer or approved person, and allow the police officer or approved person to inspect the coat, jacket, gloves, shoes or hat or other thing; and
open an article for inspection and allow the police officer or approved person to inspect it.
Subregulation 2
In addition, a licensed shooting range operator of an approved shooting range with a firearm shooting arena must take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that any shooting activity taking place in the firearm shooting arena —
only takes place in the presence and view, and in accordance with the safety directions, of a range official of the licensed shooting range operator who is authorised under a licence to possess and use such a firearm of the same type; and
must immediately stop where the safety directions given by a range official mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a) are not complied with.
Subregulation 3
In this regulation —
Definition
“approved person” means any of the following individuals charged by the licensed shooting range operator in writing to exercise any power under this regulation at or in relation to the approved shooting range of which the licensed shooting range operator has charge and control:
an auxiliary police officer who is armed;
a security officer (within the meaning of the Private Security Industry Act 2007) engaged by the licensed shooting range operator;
Definition
“hand-held scanner” means a device that may be passed over or around an individual or an individual’s personal property to detect metal, dangerous objects or explosive or other hazardous substances;
Definition
“inspecting an article” includes handling the article, opening it and examining or moving its contents;
Definition
“personal property”, in relation to an individual, means things carried by the individual or things apparently in the immediate control of the individual, but does not include clothing being worn by the individual.