Criminal Procedure Code - Singapore Statutes Online

Minister to make regulations

428.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for anything that is required, permitted or necessary for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Code.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:

(a)

the rates or scales of payment of the expenses and compensation to be ordered under section 363 and concerning the payment of them;

(b)

the treatment, training and detention of persons sentenced to reformative training, corrective training or preventive detention, including any matter relating to the supervision of such persons when they are released from their places of detention;

(c)

any form which is to be used by any person in relation to any matter under this Code;

(d)

for carrying into effect the purposes of Division 2 of Part X;

(da)

in relation to documents being filed with, served on, delivered or otherwise conveyed to any court or any party to any criminal matter —

(i)	the establishment of any electronic filing service and any other matter which relates to the use or operation of the electronic filing service;
(ii)	the manner and form of any such filing, service, delivery or conveyance;
(iii)	the modification of such provisions of the Evidence Act (Cap. 97) as may be necessary for the purpose of facilitating the use in court of documents filed, served, delivered or conveyed using the electronic filing service;
(iv)	the burden of proof and rebuttable presumptions in relation to the identity and authority of the person filing, serving, delivering or conveying the documents by the use of the electronic filing service;
(v)	the authentication of documents filed, served, delivered or conveyed by the use of the electronic filing service; and
(vi)	the means by which particular facts may be proved, and the mode in which evidence thereof may be given, in any proceedings which involve the use or operation of the electronic filing service;

(e)

the prescribing of anything that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Code.

[2/2012]

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