Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act 1989

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

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NO. 28]

Friday, July 28

[1989

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 11th July 1989 and assented to by the President on 22nd July 1989:—

Prevention Of Corruption (Amendment) Act 1989

(No. 29 of 1989)

I assent.

WEE KIM WEE

President.

22nd July 1989.

Date of Commencement: 14th August 1989

An Act to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act (Chapter 241 of the 1985 Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act 1989 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

New section 15A

2. The Prevention of Corruption Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by inserting, immediately after section 15, the following section:

“Provisions as to bail or bond

15A.—(1) A person who has been arrested by the Director or any special investigator may be released on bail or on his own bond granted by the Director or any special investigator or any police officer.

(2) The provisions of Chapters XXXV and XXXVI of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68) shall apply to any bail or bond granted under this section; and for this purpose —

(a)	any reference to “officer”, “police officer” or “police officer not below the rank of sergeant” shall be read to include the Director or any special investigator;
(b)	the reference to the Commissioner of Police in section 351 of the Criminal Procedure Code shall be read to include the Director.”.

Amendment of section 16

3. Section 16 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “special” in the eleventh line;

(b)

by deleting the words “a seizable” in the twelfth line and substituting the word “any”; and

(c)

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsection:

“(2) For the purposes of sections 58(1) and 122(5) of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68), the Director or a special investigator shall be deemed to be an officer not below the rank of inspector of police.”.

Repeal and re-enactment of section 18

4. Section 18 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:

“Powers of investigation authorised by Public Prosecutor

18. The Public Prosecutor may by order authorise the Director or a special investigator to exercise, in the case of any offence under any written law, all or any of the powers in relation to police investigations given by the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68).”.

Amendment of section 20

5. Section 20 (1) (b) of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “him”, the words “, his spouse, sons and daughters”.

New section 26A

6. The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 26, the following section:

“False statements, information, etc

26A. Any person who knowingly —

(a)	gives or causes to be given any false or misleading information relating to the commission of any offence under this Act or under section 165, 213, 214 or 215 of the Penal Code (Cap. 224);
(b)	gives or causes to be given to the Director or a special investigator any other false or misleading information,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

7.—(1) The following provisions of the principal Act are amended by deleting “$10,000” and substituting in each case “$100,000”:

Sections 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 12.

(2) Sections 20(2) and 25 of the principal Act are amended by deleting “$2,000” and substituting in each case “$10,000”.

(3) Section 30(2) of the principal Act is amended by deleting “$500” and substituting “$5,000”.

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