Public Order (National Day Parade 2024) Notification 2024

No. S 646

Public Order Act 2009

Public Order
(National Day Parade 2024)
Notification 2024

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 2024) Notification 2024.

Definitions

2. In this Notification —

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

“special event” means the National Day Parade 2024 taking place at the Padang —

(a)	on 9 August 2024; or
(b)	on 11 August 2024 instead of paragraph (a),

which the Minister has declared to be a special event for the purposes of Part 3 of the Act as provided in Gazette Notification No. 2448 published on 1 August 2024;

“special event area” means the area described in the Schedule to Gazette Notification No. 2448 published on 1 August 2024 for the special event;

“special event period” means —

(a)	if the special event is held on 9 August 2024, the whole of 9 August 2024; or
(b)	if the special event is held on 11 August 2024 instead, the whole of 11 August 2024;

“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 2024, on 10 August 2024; or
(b)	if the special event is held on 11 August 2024 instead, on 12 August 2024.

Made on 29 July 2024.

HOONG WEE TECK

Commissioner of Police,
Singapore.

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

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