When the public security is manifestly endangered by any such assembly and when neither the Minister nor the Commissioner of Police nor a Deputy Commissioner of Police can be communicated with, any commissioned officer in the Singapore Armed Forces may disperse such assembly by military force and may arrest and confine the persons forming part of it as it may be necessary to arrest and confine in order to disperse the assembly or to have them punished according to law, but if while he or she is acting under this section it becomes practicable for him or her to communicate with the Minister, the Commissioner of Police or a Deputy Commissioner of Police, he or she must do so and thereafter obey the instructions of the Minister, the Commissioner of Police or the Deputy Commissioner of Police as to whether he or she is to continue the action or not.
Section history
Section 61 — When commissioned officer may disperse unlawful assembly by military force
As in force on 31 December 2021.
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