Parliament of Singapore

“ In investigating any offence (A) under this Act pursuant to subsection (1) , (2) or (3) , a law enforcement officer may exercise any power of investigation of an offence (B) under any provision of any other written law which charges the law enforcement officer with the duty of investigating offence (B) , as if a reference in that provision to offence (B) were a reference to offence (A) . ”

“ A notice to be served on a partnership other than a limited liability partnership must, as far as is reasonably practicable, be served by delivering it to any one of the partners or the secretary, or other like officer of the partnership, at its registered office or principal place of business, and if service cannot be effected by that mode, the notice may be served by sending it by registered post addressed to the partnership at the registered office or principal place of business of the partnership. ”

“ A person in Singapore commits an offence if the person—
(a) incites, induces or invites another person (whether within or outside Singapore) ; or (b) uses any violence, threat or intimidation towards any other person (whether within or outside Singapore) in order to incite, induce or invite that other person, to become a member of, or to assist in the management of, a group, knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that the group is an organised criminal group. ”

“ The organised crime activity on which a confiscation order, restraint order or charging order is based does not need to be, or to have been, the subject of any criminal proceedings.
Confiscation order must not impact on sentence
52. A court sentencing a person for an offence referred to in section 48 (1) must not take into account any confiscation order, or any application or proposed application for a confiscation order, in determining the appropriate sentence or other manner of dealing with the person for the offence. ”

“ Every person who is aware of any information relating to—
(a) the commission of; (b) an arrangement facilitating the commission of; or (c) the intention of any other person to commit or facilitate, any offence punishable under this Act, must, in the absence of reasonable excuse (the burden of proving which lies upon the person so aware) , immediately give the information to any law enforcement officer of the commission, arrangement or intention. ”

“ In an application for an order under this section, any defence that is available to a person who is prosecuted for an offence relating to the involvement mentioned in subsection (3) (a) (i) , or an offence constituting the organised crime activity in subsection (3) (a) (ii) (as the case may be) , is also available to a person against whom the order is sought.
(5) A person required to attend before an authorised officer under subsection (2) must be given a reasonable opportunity to arrange for an advocate and solicitor to accompany the person. ”

“ A person is not guilty of an offence under this section in respect of anything done by the person in the course of acting in connection with the enforcement, or intended enforcement, of any provision of this Act or other penal legislation. ”

“ In proceedings for an offence under subsection (1) or (2) , it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the accused instructed a particular person to commit an offence.
(8) In subsection (5) , "predicate offence" means—
(a) in relation to subsection (3) (b) —the offence instructed; (b) in relation to subsection (3) (c) —the offence which would have been committed if the offence had been done with the intention or knowledge of A; (c) in relation to subsection (3) (d) —the different offence referred to in that subsection ”

“ The purpose of this Act is to deal with organised crime with the object of—
(a) punishing persons who are involved in the activities of organised criminal groups; (b) preventing, restricting and disrupting the activities of organised criminal groups and persons who are involved in such groups; (c) protecting members of the public from the harm caused, or likely to be caused by such groups;
(d) empowering a court to make various orders in order to prevent, restrict or disrupt the involvement of persons associated with such groups ”

“ Electronic monitoring of individual subject to OCPO
19.— (1) Subject to subsection (2) , an OCPO may in addition include requirements for securing the electronic monitoring (by means of an electronic monitoring device) of the whereabouts of the individual subject to the OCPO during the period when the OCPO is in force against the individual. ”