Police Force (Powers Upon Apprehension) Regulations 2024

No. S 1055

Police Force Act 2004

Police Force
(Powers Upon Apprehension)
Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 117 of the Police Force Act 2004, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Police Force (Powers Upon Apprehension) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 January 2025.

Written laws prescribed under section 26F of Act

2.  For the purposes of section 26F(1) of the Act, each of the written laws specified in the first column of the Schedule is a written law to which section 26F of the Act applies.

Application of Division 3 of Part 6 of Criminal Procedure Code 2010 to apprehensions under prescribed written laws

3.  For the purposes of section 26F(3) of the Act, Division 3 of Part 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 applies to an apprehension of any person under a written law specified in the first column of the Schedule as it applies to an arrest, with any corresponding exception that is specified in the second column of the Schedule.

THE SCHEDULE

Regulations 2 and 3

Written laws to which Division 3 of Part 6 of Criminal Procedure Code 2010 applies with exceptions

First column	Second column
Prescribed written law	Exceptions to Division 3 of Part 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 (the Code)
1. Sections 30 and 31 of the Arms and Explosives Act 1913	Section 87 of the Code does not apply
2. Section 13 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1993	Section 78(2) of the Code does not apply
3. Sections 43, 80, 81 and 103 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1993	Sections 78(2), 81, 85 and 87 of the Code do not apply
4. Sections 11, 12, 15A and 16 of the Extradition Act 1968	Sections 78(2) and 85 of the Code do not apply
5. Section 7 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008	Sections 78(1) and (2), 81, 83(2), 85, 86(c) and 87 of the Code do not apply
6. Section 91 of the Railways Act 1905	Sections 85 and 87 of the Code do not apply

Made on 23 December 2024.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/069; AG/LEGIS/SL/235/2020/8]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 117(4) of the Police Force Act 2004).