Public Order (National Day Parade 2023) Notification 2023

No. S 538

Public Order Act 2009

Public Order
(National Day Parade 2023)
Notification 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22(2) of the Public Order Act 2009, the Commissioner of Police makes the following Notification:

Citation

1. This Notification is the Public Order (National Day Parade 2023) Notification 2023.

Definitions

2. In this Notification —

“prohibited item” means a thing specified in the First Schedule;

“special event” means the National Day Parade 2023 taking place at the Padang —

(a)	on 9 August 2023; or
(b)	on 12 August 2023 instead of paragraph (a),

which the Minister has declared to be a special event for the purposes of Part 3 of the Act by the Public Order (National Day Parade 2023) Declaration 2023 (G.N. No. S 537/2023);

“special event area” means the area described in the Schedule to the Public Order (National Day Parade 2023) Declaration 2023 for the special event;

“special event period” means —

(a)	if the special event is held on 9 August 2023, the whole of 9 August 2023; or
(b)	if the special event is held on 12 August 2023 instead, the whole of 12 August 2023;

“special zone” means the area within the special event area that is described in the Second Schedule.

Conditions of entry to special event area

3. It is a condition of entry into the special event area —

(a)	that a person in, or seeking to enter, the special event area must, if asked by a police officer or an approved person, permit an inspection to be made of the person’s personal property;
(b)	that a person in, or seeking to enter, the special event area must, if asked by a police officer, permit a search to be made of the person;
(c)	that a person in, or seeking to enter, the special event area must not take into or possess in the special event area a prohibited item; and
(d)	that a person in, or seeking to enter, the special event area must comply with any lawful order of a police officer or an approved person regarding the entrant’s entry into and remaining in that special event area.

Where powers may be exercised

4.—(1) During the special event period, a police officer or an approved person may exercise —

(a)	any of the powers under section 24, 27 or 28 of the Act at any place within, or along the boundaries of, the special zone; and
(b)	any of the powers under section 29(2) of the Act at any place within, or along the boundaries of, the special event area.

(2) During the special event period, a police officer may exercise any of the powers under section 25, 26(2) or 29(3) of the Act at any place within, or along the boundaries of, the special event area.

Expiry

5. This Notification expires —

(a)	if the special event is held on 9 August 2023, on 10 August 2023; or
(b)	if the special event is held on 12 August 2023 instead, on 13 August 2023.

Made on 26 July 2023.

HOONG WEE TECK

Commissioner of Police,
Singapore.

[MHA112/2/0108; AG/LEGIS/SL/257A/2020/4 Vol. 2]

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