Registration of Criminals Act 1949
Table of Contents
Long Title
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
2 Interpretation
3 Appointment of Registrar of Criminals and Assistant Registrars
Part 2 REGISTRATION OF CRIMINALS
4 Register of criminals
5 Registration of persons convicted in or banished from places outside principal registration area
6 Particulars to be recorded in register
7 Discretionary power to dispense with registration
Part 2A SPENT CRIMINAL RECORDS
7A Interpretation and application of this Part
7B Criminal record of Singapore crime may become spent
7C Person disqualified from having criminal record become spent
7D Application by disqualified person to have criminal record treated as spent
7DA Criminal record rendered spent when community sentence completed
7E Consequences of criminal record becoming or treated as spent
7F Reference to criminal record not to include record of offence not kept in register
Part 3 TAKING OF FINGER IMPRESSIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND PARTICULARS
8 Finger impressions, photographs and particulars of person under arrest
9 Finger impressions, photographs and particulars of convicted person
10 Acquittal or discharge of person from whom finger impressions, etc., taken under section 8
11 Finger impressions of prisoners and banishees
12 Particulars of removal of banishee
13 Duty to submit to taking of photographs and finger impressions
Part 4 TAKING OF BODY SAMPLES
13A Interpretation of this Part
13B Body samples may be taken from arrested persons, convicted persons and prisoners
13C Consent for taking of blood sample
13D Body samples given voluntarily
13E Taking and analysis body samples
13F DNA database
13G Removal of DNA information from register upon acquittal or discharge, etc.
Part 5 MISCELLANEOUS
13H Removal of registrable particulars, etc., of person upon death or attainment of 100 years of age
13I Providing register information to foreign law enforcement agency
14 Evidence
14A Rules
15 Power to vary Schedules
16 Saving
Legislative History
Abbreviations
Comparative Table