Minor Offences Act - Singapore Statutes Online

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3 Verandahs public roads

4 Offences how punishable

5 General rules for assemblies and processions

6 Burning material or discharging firearm in public road

7 Duty of police officers as to dangerous animals

8 Dog running at persons, etc.

9 Ferocious dog at large

10 Liability of dog owner

12 Offences relating to animals

14 Obstruction in canals, etc.

15 Penalty for depositing corpse or dying person

16 Unlawful possession of naval, military, air force or police stores

17 Penalty for taking spirits into barracks or on board Government ships

18 Power to arrest and search boats

19 Penalty for harbouring or concealing deserter from vessels

20 Supplying drink, etc., to constables on duty

21 Drunkeness in public places

22 Soliciting in public place

23 Riotous, disorderly or indecent behaviour in, or in the immediate vicinity of, certain places

24 Wilful trespass on property

25 Apprehension of suspected persons

26 Penalty for taking intoxicant, etc., into public hospital

28 Improper management of house of public resort

30 Idle and disorderly persons. Unlicensed hawkers

31 Rogues and vagabonds. Persons previously convicted under section 30

32 Any person may arrest offender

33 Search of conveyance or goods of person arrested

34 Search of premises for idle and disorderly person and rogue and vagabond

35 Magistrate may take recognizances for good behaviour in certain cases

36 Public pounds to be provided

37 Fraudulent possession of property

38 Secondhand dealers and money changers to report property stolen or fraudulently obtained

39 Melting or defacing metals, etc., within 3 days of receipt

40 Register of workers and dealers in metals

41 Employees not affected

Minor Offences Act

(CHAPTER 184)

(Original Enactment: Ordinance 13 of 1906)

REVISED EDITION 1985

(30th March 1987)

An Act relating to minor offences.

[6th July 1906]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Minor Offences Act.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“horse” includes mules and asses;

“cattle” includes bulls, cows, bullocks and buffaloes;

“in or near any public road” includes all places in the public road, and all places within 9 metres of it not being effectually separated from and hidden from the road by a wall or otherwise;

“public road” includes every road, street, passage, footway or square over which the public has a right of way.

Verandahs public roads

3. The open verandahs of houses abutting on the public roads are public roads for foot-passengers subject to all rights of property of the owners of those houses.

Offences how punishable

4. All offences under this Act shall be tried by a Magistrate’s Court or a District Court.

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