No. S 454
Misuse of Drugs Act
(Chapter 185)
Misuse of Drugs (Approved Institutions) (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 58 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Misuse of Drugs (Approved Institutions) (Discipline) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 15th September 2008.
Amendment of regulation 2
2.  Regulation 2 of the Misuse of Drugs (Approved Institutions) (Discipline) Regulations (Rg 5) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “centre”, the following definition:
“ “Committee” means an Institutional Discipline Advisory Committee appointed under regulation 2A;”.
New regulation 2A
3.  The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 2, the following regulation:
“Institutional Discipline Advisory Committee
2A.—(1)  The Minister may appoint one or more committees, each to be known as an Institutional Discipline Advisory Committee, to render an opinion on whether, in any case where a Superintendent of a centre has ordered that corporal punishment be imposed on an inmate, the punishment imposed on the inmate is excessive.
(2)  A Committee shall consist of —
(a)a Chairman; and
(b)not more than 3 other members.
(3)  Each Chairman or member of a Committee shall hold office for such period, not exceeding 2 years, as the Minister may determine and shall be eligible for re-appointment.
(4)  A Chairman or member of a Committee may resign from his appointment at any time by giving notice in writing to the Minister.
(5)  The Minister may at any time revoke the appointment of any Chairman or member, or fill any vacancy in the membership, of a Committee.
(6)  A Chairman of a Committee shall preside at every meeting of the Committee at which he is present, and in his absence, the remaining members of the Committee shall elect one of their number to preside at the meeting of the Committee.
(7)  The Committee shall sit in private and shall not be required to interview any inmate or other person.
(8)  Each Committee may determine its own procedure.
(9)  The Minister may give directions to a Committee as to the matters to be taken into account by the Committee when discharging its functions.”.
Amendment of regulation 10
4.  Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraphs:
“(3)  In any case where a Superintendent of a centre has ordered that corporal punishment be imposed on an inmate, the Director of Prisons shall refer the case to a Committee for its opinion on whether the punishment imposed on the inmate is excessive.
(4)  The Committee shall render its opinion to the Director of Prisons within such period as the Minister may determine after the case has been referred to the Committee.
(5)  The Director of Prisons may, but shall not be required to, have regard to the opinion of the Committee when performing his functions and duties under paragraph (2).”.
[G.N. No. S 406/2003]

Made this 10th day of September 2008.

BENNY LIM
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.
[MHA (RH) 1/08-Vol 1; AG/LEG/SL/185/2003/1 Vol. 2]
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