Criminal Procedure Code (Service on Singapore Prison Service for Application relating to Stay of Execution) Regulations 2024

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Criminal Procedure Code 2010

Criminal Procedure Code
(Service on Singapore Prison Service for
Application relating to Stay of Execution)
Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 428 of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010, the Minister for Law makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Criminal Procedure Code (Service on Singapore Prison Service for Application relating to Stay of Execution) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 28 June 2024.

Mode of service on Singapore Prison Service for application relating to stay of execution

2. For the purposes of section 313(1)(ia)(ii) of the Code and subject to regulation 3, an application for permission to apply for a stay of execution or an application for a stay of execution must be served on the Singapore Prison Service by delivering a copy of the application personally to an officer of the Singapore Prison Service not later than 6 p.m. of the day immediately before the date that the execution is scheduled —

(a)	at the following address: HQ Sentry (along Jalan Bena), Singapore Prison Service Headquarters, 980 Upper Changi Road North, Singapore 507708; and
(b)	enclosed in an envelope labelled “Service of Application to Court for Permission to Apply for Stay of Execution for [insert name of person for whom the stay of execution is sought]” or “Service of Application to Court for Stay of Execution for [insert name of person for whom the stay of execution is sought]”, as the case may be.

Exemption from service

3. The requirement for service on the Singapore Prison Service in section 313(1)(ia)(ii) of the Code does not apply where the Singapore Prison Service assists an applicant to file the application for permission to apply for a stay of execution or the application for a stay of execution, as the case may be.

Made on 24 June 2024.

LUKE GOH

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[63/009 Criminal Procedure Code Vol. 61; AG/LEGIS/SL/68/2020/13]