Public Order (Special Notice — Prescribed Crowd Size and Period) Regulations 2017

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No. S 531

Public Order Act

(CHAPTER 257A)

Public Order
(Special Notice — Prescribed Crowd Size
and Period) Regulations 2017

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 47 of the Public Order Act, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Public Order (Special Notice — Prescribed Crowd Size and Period) Regulations 2017 and come into operation on 1 October 2017.

Prescribed crowd size

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 6A(1) of the Act, the prescribed number of individuals is —

(a)	for a private event, 10,000 individuals; or
(b)	for a public event, 5,000 individuals.

(2) In this regulation —

“private event” means an event that is not a public event;

“public event” means an event that is held in a public place.

Prescribed period

3. For the purposes of section 6A(2) of the Act, the prescribed period is as follows:

(a)	for an election meeting to which the Public Order (Election Meetings and Processions in Parliamentary Elections) Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 486/2009) apply, the period between the time mentioned in regulation 5(2) of those Regulations and the day on which the election meeting is to be held; [S 495/2020 wef 26/06/2020]
(b)	for an election meeting to which the Public Order (Election Meetings and Processions in Presidential Elections) Regulations 2017 (G.N. No. S 273/2017) apply, the period between the time mentioned in regulation 5(2) of those Regulations and the day on which the election meeting is to be held; [S 495/2020 wef 26/06/2020]
(c)	for any other event, 28 days.

Made on 25 September 2017.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/0108; AG/LEGIS/SL/257A/2015/10 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 47(4) of the Public Order Act).

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