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Section 84 — Power to pursue and arrest after escape or rescue

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

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84.Power to pursue and arrest after escape or rescue
Subsection (1) — Original text to 1 August 2024superseded

(1)If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he or she escaped or was rescued, or any police officer, may immediately pursue and arrest him or her for the purpose of returning him or her to the place where he or she was in lawful custody.

Subsection (1) — From 1 August 2024 (current)rewritten by Criminal Procedure (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2024

(1)If a person (A) in lawful custody escapes or is rescued —

(a)the person who has lawful custody of A at the time of A’s escape or rescue;

(b)where the person who has lawful custody of A at the time of A’s escape or rescue is from a prescribed law enforcement agency or a specified law enforcement agency — any specified officer of any specified law enforcement agency; or

(c)any police officer,

may immediately pursue and arrest A for the purpose of returning A to the place where A was in lawful custody.

(2)Sections 77 and 82 shall apply to any arrest under subsection (1) even if the person making the arrest is not acting under an arrest warrant and is not a police officer having authority to arrest.

(3)In this section —

“prescribed law enforcement agency” means a law enforcement agency prescribed for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) by the Minister charged with the responsibility for home affairs;

“specified law enforcement agency” means —

(a)the Central Narcotics Bureau;

(b)the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority; or

(c)the Singapore Prison Service;

“specified officer” means —

(a)in relation to the Central Narcotics Bureau — an officer of the Bureau as defined in section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973;

(b)in relation to the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority — an immigration officer as defined in section 2 of the Immigration Act 1959; and

(c)in relation to the Singapore Prison Service — a prison officer as defined in section 2 of the Prisons Act 1933.