Public Entertainments and Meetings (Demerit Points) Rules 2001

No. S 407

Public Entertainments and Meetings Act

(Chapter 257)

Public Entertainments and Meetings (Demerit Points) Rules 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 15 and 23 of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Public Entertainments and Meetings (Demerit Points) Rules 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2001.

Definitions

2. In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“licence” means a licence issued under the Act —

(a)

for the provision of any public entertainment in a pub, lounge, discotheque, bar, cabaret, nightclub, restaurant, snack bar or café;

(b)

for any of the following public entertainments:

(i)	amusement centre;
(ii)	amusement park;
(iii)	billiard saloon;
(iv)	computer games centre; or

(c)

for the provision of any machine or device by the manipulation of which chances are given of obtaining prizes in money or kind at any place other than at a fun fair,

and “licensee” shall be construed accordingly;

“scheduled condition” means any condition described in the Schedule;

“fun fair” means an amusement fair which is, or may be, established and operated for a continuous period of not more than 31 days in any place to which the public or any class of the public has access, whether gratuitously or otherwise.

Award of demerit points

3.—(1) Six demerit points shall be awarded to a licensee who has been convicted of, or who has accepted an offer to compound, an offence under section 19(1)(c) of the Act for contravening a scheduled condition of his licence which is a scheduled condition.

(2) Three demerit points shall be awarded to a licensee who has been convicted of, or who has accepted an offer to compound, an offence under section 19(1)(c) of the Act for contravening any other condition (not being a scheduled condition) of his licence.

(3) Any demerit point awarded under paragraph (1) or (2) shall take effect from the date of the commission or alleged commission of the offence.

Demerit points for requiring security

4. The Licensing Officer may —

(a)	require a licensee to give security or (as the case may be) additional security of $2,000 under section 11(2) of the Act if the licensee has been awarded a total number of 12 or more demerit points but less than 15 demerit points; or
(b)	require a licensee to give security or (as the case may be) additional security of $5,000 under section 11(2) of the Act if the licensee has been awarded a total number of 15, 18 or 21 demerit points.

Demerit points for forfeiture of security

5. Without prejudice to rule 4(b), the Licensing Officer may forfeit any security of a licensee under section 11(4)(b) of the Act if the licensee has been awarded a total number of 15 or more demerit points.

Demerit points for suspension or cancellation of licence

6. For the purposes of section 14(3) of the Act, the Licensing Officer may —

(a)	suspend a licence if the licensee has been awarded a total number of 21 or more demerit points but less than 24 demerit points; or
(b)	cancel a licence if the licensee has been awarded a total number of 24 or more demerit points.

Calculation of demerit points

7. In calculating the total number of demerit points awarded to a licensee in respect of any place for the purposes of the Act and these Rules —

(a)

only such demerit points as have been awarded to a licensee in respect of that place within a period not exceeding 24 consecutive months, commencing from the date of the first award of demerit points within that period, shall be considered;

(b)

all demerit points awarded to the licensee —

(i)	in respect of any other place; or
(ii)	before the period referred to in paragraph (a),

shall not be considered; and

(c)

where a licensee holds more than one licence in respect of that place, the aggregate of such demerit points as have been awarded to the licensee in respect of all the licences held in respect of that place shall be considered.

Made this 22nd day of August 2001.

TAN GUONG CHING

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA112/2/091; LD/A/168/3/7 Vol. 4; AG/LEG/SL/257/1997/1 Vol. 4]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 23(2) of the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act).

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