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Section 44 — Security for good behaviour from suspected offenders, etc.

Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.

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44.Security for good behaviour from suspected offenders, etc.

(1)A court may require a person to show cause why hethe person should not be ordered to execute a bond for his or her good behaviour for a period not exceeding 2 years, if it appears to the court that —

(a)the person is trying to conceal his or her presence and there is reason to believe that he or she is doing so with a view to committing an offence;

(b)the person has no apparent means of supporting himself or herself or is unable to give a satisfactory account of himself;himself or herself; or

(c)the person orally or in writing disseminates or tries to disseminate or in any way helps to disseminate —

(i)any seditious matter, that is to say, any matter whose publication is punishable under the Sedition Act (Cap. 290)1948 or any material which forms the subject matter of a charge under section 267C, 298A or 505 of the Penal Code (Cap. 224);1871†; or

(ii)any matter concerning a Judge or a judicial officer amounting to criminal intimidation or defamation under the Penal Code.Code 1871.

(2)No proceeding shallmay be taken under subsection (1)(c) except with the consent of the Public Prosecutor.