Public Order (National Day Parade 2017) Notification 2017

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No. S 436

Public Order Act

(CHAPTER 257A)

Public Order
(National Day Parade 2017)
Notification 2017

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

Citation

1. This Notification is the Public Order (National Day Parade 2017) Notification 2017.

Definitions

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

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

“special event” means the National Day Parade 2017 taking place at The Float @ Marina Bay in Singapore —

(a)	on 9 August 2017; or
(b)	on 12 August 2017 instead of paragraph (a),

which the Minister has declared to be a special event for the purposes of Part III of the Act by the Public Order (National Day Parade 2017) Declaration 2017 (G.N. No. S 435/2017);

“special event area” means the area described in the Schedule to the Public Order (National Day Parade 2017) Declaration 2017 for the special event;

“special event period” means —

(a)	if the special event is held on 9 August 2017, the whole of 9 August 2017; or
(b)	if the special event is held on 12 August 2017 instead, the whole of 12 August 2017;

“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 seeking to enter, or in, 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 seeking to enter, or in, the special event area must, if asked by a police officer, permit a search to be made of the person;
(c)	that a person seeking to enter, or in, the special event area must not take into or possess in the special event area a prohibited item; and
(d)	that a person seeking to enter, or in, 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. During the special event period —

(a)

a police officer or an approved person may exercise —

(i)	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
(ii)	any of the powers under section 29 of the Act at any place within, or along the boundaries of, the special event area; and

(b)

a police officer may exercise any of the powers under section 25 or 26 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 2017, on 10 August 2017; or
(b)	if the special event is held on 12 August 2017 instead, on 13 August 2017.

Made on 27 July 2017.

HOONG WEE TECK

Commissioner of Police,
Singapore.

[MHA112/2/0108; AG/LEGIS/SL/257A/2015/1 Vol. 3]

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