Public Order (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation 2009 Leaders’ Week) Notification 2009

No. S 539

Public Order Act 2009

(Act 15 of 2009)

Public Order (Asia-pacific Economic Co-operation 2009 Leaders’ Week) Notification 2009

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

Citation

1. This Notification may be cited as the Public Order (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation 2009 Leaders’ Week) Notification 2009.

Definitions

2. In this Notification, unless the context otherwise requires —

“special event” means the event known as the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation 2009 Leaders’ Week being held at the Marina Bay area and the Istana between 8th November 2009 and 15th November 2009 (both dates inclusive) and declared a special event for the purposes of Part III of the Act by the Public Order (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation 2009 Leaders’ Week) Declaration 2009 (G.N. No. S 538/2009);

“special event sites” means the areas described in the First and Second Schedules to the Public Order (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation 2009 Leaders’ Week) Declaration 2009 for the special event, except land that is not a public place.

Conditions of entry to special event sites

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

(a)	that a person seeking to enter or in the special event site must, if asked by a police officer or an approved person, permit an inspection to be made of his personal property;
(b)	that a person seeking to enter or in the special event site must, if asked by a police officer, permit a search to be made of the person;
(c)	that a person must not take into or possess in the special event site a prohibited item in the Schedule, except with the express permission of a police officer; and
(d)	that a person seeking to enter or in the special event site 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 site.

Where police officers and approved persons may exercise powers at special event

4. During the special event, a police officer or an approved person may exercise any of the powers under sections 24 to 29 of the Act at any place that is within any of the special event sites or is along the boundaries of the respective special event sites.

Prohibited items

5. Each item in the Schedule is a prohibited item.

Expiry

6. This Notification expires on 16th November 2009.

Made this 29th day of October 2009.

KHOO BOON HUI

Commissioner of Police,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/0108; AG/LEG/SL/257A/2009/2 Vol. 1]

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