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Singapore Corporation of
Rehabilitative Enterprises
Act 1975

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

An Act to establish the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises and for matters connected therewith.

[7 November 1975: Except Part III;

1 April 1976: Part III]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act is the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises Act 1975.

Interpretation

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

“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Corporation appointed under section 4(1);

“chief executive officer” means the chief executive of the Corporation, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;

“Corporation” means the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises established under section 3(1);

“Deputy Chairperson” means the Deputy Chairperson of the Corporation appointed under section 4(1);

“inmate” means a person who is detained in any approved institution under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 or in such other institution or place as may be prescribed;

“member” means a member of the Corporation and includes the Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson;

“prison officer” means any Chief Rehabilitation Officer, Principal Rehabilitation Officer, warder or other subordinate officer;

“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre.

[23/87; 5/2018; 2/2020]