Singapore legislation
Regulation 86
of Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Explosives and Explosive Precursors) Regulations 2025
Regulation 86
Frisk search, etc., at magazine
Subregulation 1
A holder of an explosives storage licence to store high‑risk explosives in a magazine which is not a receptacle, must take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that every individual is, before entering and before leaving the magazine, 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 them;
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 this regulation —
Definition
“approved person” means any of the following individuals authorised in writing by the holder of an explosives storage licence concerned to exercise any power under this regulation at or in relation to the premises of the holder:
an auxiliary police officer;
a security officer (within the meaning of the Private Security Industry Act 2007) engaged by the holder;
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 explosives 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.