REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
ACTS SUPPLEMENT
Published by Authority

NO. 5]Friday, March 3 [1989

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 26th January 1989 and assented to by the President on 21st February 1989:—
Probation Of Offenders (Amendment) Act 1989

(No. 7 of 1989)


I assent.

WEE KIM WEE
President.
21st February 1989.
Date of Commencement: 1st April 1989
An Act to amend the Probation of Offenders Act (Chapter 252 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 Probation of Offenders (Amendment) Act 1989 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
Amendment of section 5
2.  Section 5 of the Probation of Offenders Act is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “one year” in the last line of subsection (1) and substituting the words “6 months”; and
(b)by deleting subsection (5).
Amendment of section 7
3.  Section 7(2) of the Probation of Offenders Act is amended by deleting “$100” in the sixth line and substituting “$500”.