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Section 62 — Protection against prosecution for acts done under this Division

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

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62.Protection against prosecution for acts done under this Division

No prosecution against the Minister or any police officer or officer, sailor, soldier or airman in the Singapore Armed Forces or in any visiting force lawfully present in Singapore for any act purporting to be done under this Division shallmay be instituted in any criminal court except with the sanction of the President, and —

(a)no police officer acting under this Division in good faith;

(b)no commissioned officer acting under section 61 in good faith;

(c)no person doing any act in good faith in compliance with a requisition under section 58 or 60; and

(d)no inferior officer, sailor, soldier or airman or member of any of the Singapore Armed Forces or of any visiting force lawfully present in Singaporethe Singapore Armed Forces doing any act in obedience to any order which under naval, military or air force law he or she was bound to obey,

shall beis deemed thereby to have committed an offence.