Criminal Procedure Code - Singapore Statutes Online

Commission of further offence

354.—(1) If it appears to a judge to whom jurisdiction is granted under subsection (3) that an offender has been convicted by any court of one or more offences committed during the period when a community order is in force in respect of the offender, and has been dealt with in respect of that offence or those offences, the judge may fix a hearing date to determine if the offender has been so convicted and dealt with and may issue a summons requiring the offender to appear at the place and time specified therein, or may issue a warrant for his arrest.

(2) A Magistrate may not issue a warrant under subsection (1) except on information in writing.

(3) The following persons shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of subsection (1):

(a)	if the community order was made by the High Court, a Judge of the High Court;
(b)	if the community order was made by a District Court, a District Judge; and
(c)	if the community order was made by a Magistrate’s Court, a Magistrate.

(4) A summons or warrant issued under this section shall direct the offender so convicted to appear or be brought before the court which made the community order.

(5) If an offender in respect of whom a community order has been made by the High Court or District Court is convicted and dealt with by any Magistrate’s Court in respect of any offence or offences committed during the period when the community order is in force in respect of the offender, the Magistrate’s Court may commit him to custody or release him on bail (with or without sureties) until he can be brought or appears before the court by which the community order has been made; and if he does so the Magistrate’s Court shall send to the High Court or the District Court, as the case may be, a copy of the minute or memorandum of the conviction entered in the register, signed by the Magistrate.

(6) Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court by which a community order has been made that the offender in respect of whom the community order has been made has been convicted and dealt with in respect of an offence or offences committed during the period when the community order is in force in respect of the offender, that court may, taking into account the extent to which the offender has complied with the order, revoke the order made and impose such sentence which is prescribed for the offence or offences in respect of which the order has been made.

(7) If an offender in respect of whom a community order has been made by a Magistrate’s Court is convicted before the High Court or a District Court or another Magistrate’s Court of an offence committed during the period when the community order is in force in respect of the offender, the High Court or the District Court or such other Magistrate’s Court (as the case may be) may, taking into account the extent to which the offender has complied with the order, revoke the order made and impose such sentence which is prescribed for the offence or offences in respect of which the order has been made.

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