Auxiliary Police Forces (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 21 Mar 2006

No. S 166

Police Force Act

(Chapter 235)

Auxiliary Police Forces (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 104 of the Police Force Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Auxiliary Police Forces (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006 and shall come into operation on 22nd March 2006.

New regulations 33A and 33B

2. The Auxiliary Police Forces Regulations 2004 (G.N. No. S 625/2004) are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 33, the following regulations:

“Audit

33A. The Commissioner or any person authorised by him in writing may, from time to time, carry out an audit of an Auxiliary Police Force in respect of all or any of the following areas:

(a)	the safeguarding by the Auxiliary Police Force of any property;
(b)	the safeguarding by the Auxiliary Police Force of any person;
(c)	the rendering by the Auxiliary Police Force of any assistance to the Police Force in the maintenance of law and order;
(d)	the rendering by the Auxiliary Police Force of any assistance to any department of the Government or any statutory body in the discharge of any duty or function conferred under any written law;
(e)	the carrying out by the Auxiliary Police Force of any security activity approved by the Commissioner under section 86(1)(e) of the Act;
(f)	the deployment of its auxiliary police officers for any purpose specified in section 86(1) of the Act;
(g)	the provision of uniforms, arms, ammunition and other equipment to its auxiliary police officers for their protection or for the effective discharge of their duties as auxiliary police officers;
(h)	the recruitment and training of its auxiliary police officers.

Fee payable under section 86 (3) (c) of Act

33B.—(1) Where an employer of an Auxiliary Police Force is required by the Commissioner under section 86(3)(c) of the Act to pay an annual fee for any financial year or part thereof (as may be specified by the Commissioner), the fee shall be an amount equal to $0.10 multiplied by the total number of man-hours during which auxiliary police officers from the Auxiliary Police Force are deployed in that financial year or part thereof to carry out the purposes specified in section 86 (1)(b) to (e) of the Act.

(2) The fee payable for any financial year or part thereof shall be paid to the Commissioner within one month after the end of that financial year.

(3) Payment of the fee shall be made —

(a)	through such electronic funds transfer system as the Commissioner may designate from time to time, whereby payment may be effected by directing the transfer of funds electronically from the bank account of the payer to a bank account designated by the Commissioner; or
(b)	in such other form or manner as the Commissioner may specify.

(4) In this regulation, “financial year” means the period from 1st April of a year to 31st March of the succeeding year.”.

[G.N. No. S 35/2006]

Made this 16th day of March 2006.

Benny Lim

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA (PS) 12/05; AG/LEG/SL/235/2005/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 104(3) of the Police Force Act).

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