Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992
Table of Contents
Long Title
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Short title
2 General interpretation
3 Meaning of "item subject to legal privilege"
4 Application
5 Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office
Part 2 CONFISCATION OF BENEFITS OF DRUG DEALING OR CRIMINAL CONDUCT
6 Confiscation orders for benefits derived from drug dealing
7 Confiscation orders for benefits derived from criminal conduct
8 Confiscation order unaffected by confiscation order under Organised Crime Act 2015
9 Live video or live television links
10 Assessing benefits of drug dealing
11 Assessing benefits derived from criminal conduct
12 Statements relating to drug dealing or criminal conduct
13 Amount to be recovered under confiscation order
14 Interest on sums unpaid under confiscation order
15 Definition of principal terms used
16 Protection of rights of third party
Part 3 ENFORCEMENT, ETC., OF CONFISCATION ORDERS
17 Application of procedure for enforcing fines
18 Cases in which restraint orders and charging orders may be made
19 Restraint orders
20 Charging orders in respect of land, capital markets products, etc.
21 Charging orders: supplementary provisions
22 Realisation of property
23 Application of proceeds of realisation and other sums
24 Exercise of powers by General Division of High Court or receiver
25 Variation of confiscation orders
26 Bankruptcy of defendant, etc.
27 Winding up of company holding realisable property
28 Receivers: supplementary provisions
Part 4 APPLICATION TO ABSCONDED PERSONS
29 Absconded persons
30 Confiscation order where person has absconded
31 Effect of death on proceedings
32 Service of documents on absconders
Part 4A CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY OF CORRESPONDING VALUE TO INSTRUMENTALITIES
33 Application of Part
34 Substitute property confiscation order
35 Modified application of Parts 2, 3 and 4
Part 5 INFORMATION GATHERING POWERS
Division 1 — Production orders
36 Production orders
37 Production orders against financial institution to produce material relating to drug dealing or criminal conduct
38 Variation of production order
39 Failure to comply with production order
Division 2 — Search powers
40 Authority for search
41 Supplementary provisions to sections 36, 38 and 40
Division 3 — Record-keeping and suspicious transaction reports
42 Interpretation of this Division
43 Retention of records by financial institutions
44 Register of original documents
45 Duty to disclose knowledge or suspicion
46 Protection where information given under section 45
47 Information and identity of informers not to be disclosed
48 Communication of information to foreign authority
Division 4 — Disclosure of information held by public bodies
49 Disclosure of information held by public bodies
Part 6 OFFENCES
50 Assisting another to retain benefits of drug dealing
51 Assisting another to retain benefits from criminal conduct
52 Restriction on revealing disclosure under sections 50 and 51
53 Acquiring, possessing, using, concealing or transferring benefits of drug dealing
54 Acquiring, possessing, using, concealing or transferring benefits from criminal conduct
55 Possessing or using property reasonably suspected to be benefits from drug dealing, etc.
55A Assisting another to retain benefits of drug dealing or benefits from criminal conduct in certain circumstances, etc.
56 Proof and knowledge, etc., of predicate offence
57 Tipping-off
Part 6A CROSS BORDER MOVEMENTS OF PHYSICAL CURRENCY AND BEARER NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS
58 Object of this Part
59 Interpretation of this Part
60 Reports about cross border movements of cash
61 Obligation of immigration officers
62 Reports about receipts of cash from outside Singapore
63 Questioning and search powers in relation to cash
64 Confiscation orders for offences under section 60 or 62
65 Power to exempt
Part 6B CASH TRANSACTION REPORTS
66 Interpretation of this Part
67 Customer due diligence measures, etc.
68 Cash transaction reports
69 Keeping of records
Part 7 MISCELLANEOUS
70 Offence of prejudicing investigation
71 Compensation
72 Standard of proof
73 Conduct by directors, employees or agents
74 Evidence of corresponding law or foreign law
75 Proof of convictions and acquittals
76 Powers of arrest and investigations
77 Preservation of secrecy
78 Obstructing authorised officers, Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officers and immigration officers
79 Consent of Public Prosecutor
80 Offences by bodies corporate, etc.
81 Composition of offences
82 Jurisdiction of Magistrate’s Court and District Court
83 Rules of Court
84 Amendment of Schedules
85 Regulations
Legislative History
Abbreviations
Comparative Table