13.—(1) Any person who, without the authority of the Act, these Regulations or the express permission of the Commissioner of Prisons —(a) | conveys or supplies, or causes to be conveyed or supplied, to any inmate, or hides or places for the use of any inmate, any unauthorised article; | (b) | brings, or attempts by any means to introduce, into any centre, or places, or attempts to place, where inmates work, any unauthorised article; | (c) | brings, or attempts to bring, out of any centre, or conveys from any inmate, any unauthorised article; | (d) | makes any audio or visual recording in a centre; | (e) | communicates with any inmate in circumstances where the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the communication is likely to encourage, incite or agitate any inmate to commit an offence (including any offence listed in the Schedule), and thereby encourages, incites or agitates an inmate to commit an offence (including any offence listed in the Schedule); or | (f) | does any act, or omits to do any act, which the person is required by law to do, which the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, is likely to have any of the following effects, and which does have that effect:(i) | prejudicing the safe custody of inmates, the safety of any person in a centre, or the security of a centre; | (ii) | prejudicing the maintenance of good order and discipline in a centre, |
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shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both. |
(2) Every officer of a centre who, without the authority of the Act, these Regulations or the express permission of the Commissioner of Prisons —(a) | knowingly suffers any unauthorised article to be sold to or on behalf of, or to be received or used by or on behalf of, any inmate; | (b) | lends or gives to any inmate any unauthorised article; | (c) | knowingly suffers any unauthorised article to be brought out of any centre, or to be conveyed from any inmate; | (d) | knowingly suffers the making of any audio or visual recording in a centre; or | (e) | knowingly suffers any act or omission which he or she knows, or ought reasonably to know, is likely to have any of the following effects, and which does have such effect:(i) | prejudicing the safe custody of inmates, the safety of any person in a centre, or the security of a centre; | (ii) | prejudicing the maintenance of good order and discipline in a centre, |
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shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both. |
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(3) In this regulation, “unauthorised article” means —(a) | any letter or document; | (b) | any electronic storage device; | (c) | any intoxicating substance, controlled drug, psychoactive substance or stimulant; | (d) | any food or drink; | (e) | any item of clothing; | (f) | money; or | (g) | any article not specifically authorised by the Commissioner of Prisons to be brought into or out of a centre. [S 484/2024 wef 01/06/2024] |
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