(1)When the Minister or the Commissioner of Police or a Deputy Commissioner of Police determines to disperse any such assembly by military force, he or she ²⁰²¹may require any commissioned or non-commissioned²⁰²¹non‑commissioned²⁰²¹ officer in command of any sailors, soldiers or airmen in the Singapore Armed Forces or in any visiting force lawfully present in Singapore²⁰¹⁸ to disperse the assembly by military force and to arrest and confine the persons forming part of it as the Minister or Commissioner of Police or the Deputy Commissioner of Police directs or as it may be necessary to arrest and confine in order to disperse the assembly or to have them punished according to law.

(2)Every such officer shall²⁰²¹must²⁰²¹ obey such requisition in such manner as he or she ²⁰²¹thinks fit, but in so doing he shall²⁰²¹or she must²⁰²¹ use as little force and do as little injury to person and property as is consistent with dispersing the assembly and arresting and confining those persons.