Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 16/1987

Read the first time on 28th July 1987.

An Act to amend the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises Act (Chapter 298 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 Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (Amendment) Act 1987 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 2

2. Section 2 of the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Deputy Chairman”, the following definition:

“ “inmate” means a person who is detained in any approved institution under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185) or in such other institution or place as may be prescribed;”.

Amendment of section 4

3. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:

“(1) The Corporation shall consist of the following members, all of whom shall be appointed by the Minister:

(a)	a Chairman;
(b)	a Deputy Chairman who shall be an officer from the Ministry of Home Affairs;
(c)	the Director of Prisons or his representative; and
(d)	not less than 2 nor more than 12 other members.”.

Amendment of section 15

4. Section 15 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting “—(1)” in the first line;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the word “prisoners” in paragraphs (a), (c), (d) and (f), in each case the words “and inmates”;

(c)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (e); and

(d)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (f) and substituting the word “; and”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(g)	to provide or secure the provision of rehabilitative and aftercare services to prisoners and inmates before and after their discharge from custody and to assist the provision by others of such services.”.

Amendment of section 16

5. Section 16 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the word “prisoner” in paragraph (a), the words “and inmate”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the word “prisoners” in paragraphs (b), (c), (g) and (h), in each case the words “and inmates”; and

(c)

by deleting paragraph (j) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(j)	make grants or lend money to, or enter into guarantees on behalf of, any person or organisation in matters relating to the provision of industrial or vocational training for, or of rehabilitative and aftercare services to, prisoners and inmates before and after their discharge from custody;
(ja)	make grants or lend money to, or enter into guarantees on behalf of, prisoners and inmates after their discharge from custody for the purposes of any vocation, trade or business carrying on by them;”.

Amendment of section 18

6. Section 18 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:

“(1) The Corporation shall, with the approval of the Minister, appoint a chief executive officer on such terms and conditions as the Corporation may determine.”.

Repeal and re-enactment of section 24

7. Section 24 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:

“Corporation’s financial year

24. The financial year of the Corporation shall begin on 1st January and end on 31st December of each year except that the financial year of the Corporation for 1987 shall begin on 1st April and shall end on 31st December 1987.”.

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