REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
ACTS SUPPLEMENT
Published by Authority

NO. 4]Friday, January 31 [1986

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 10th January 1986 and assented to by the President on 22nd January 1986:—
Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 1986

(No. 5 of 1986)


I assent.

WEE KIM WEE
President.
22nd January 1986.
Date of Commencement: 1st March 1986
An Act to amend the Criminal Procedure Code (Chapter 113 of the 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 Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 1986 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
Amendment of section 7
2.  Section 7 of the Criminal Procedure Code (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “seven years” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “10 years”; and
(b)by deleting the words “or imprisonment for life” in subsection (2).
Amendment of section 9
3.  Section 9 (c) (i) of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “seven years” and substituting the words “10 years”.
Amendment of section 11
4.  Section 11 (3) of the principal Act is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “five years” in paragraph (a) and substituting the words “7 years”; and
(b)by deleting the words “five thousand dollars” in paragraph (b) and substituting “$10,000”.