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No. S 34

Prisons Act

(Chapter 247)

Prisons Act (Amendment of Schedule) Order 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 82 of the Prisons Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Prisons Act (Amendment of Schedule) Order 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2008.

Amendment of Schedule

2. Paragraph (7) of the Schedule to the Prisons Act is amended ––

(a)

by inserting, immediately before sub-paragraph (a), the following heading:

“Offences included with effect from 17th April 2000; and ”.

(b)

by inserting, immediately after sub-paragraph (p), the following heading and sub-paragraphs:

“Offences included with effect from 1st February 2008

(q)	section 130E (Genocide)
(r)	section 363A (Abduction)
(s)	section 364A (Kidnapping or abducting in order to compel the Government, etc.)
(t)	section 375 (Rape)
(u)	section 376 (Sexual assault by penetration)
(v)	section 376A (Sexual penetration of minor under 16)
(w)	section 376F (Procurement of sexual activity with person with mental disability)
(x)	section 376G (Incest)
(y)	section 377(4) (Causing another person to sexually penetrate a corpse)
(z)	section 377B(4) (Causing another person to sexually penetrate a living animal or be sexually penetrated by a living animal)”.

Made this 24th day of January 2008.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore

[MHA 112/2/078; AG/LRRD/31/2003/29]