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Section 121B — Offences against authority

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

Amendments
Section 121B — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
121B.Offences against authority

Whoever compasses, imagines, investsinvents, devises or intends the deprivation or deposition of the President from the sovereignty of Singapore, or the overawing by criminal force of the Government, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to a fine.

Section 121B — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
121B.Offences against authority

Whoever plans the unlawful deprivation or deposition of the President from the sovereignty of Singapore, or the overawing by criminal force of the Government, shall be punished with imprisonment for life or for a term which may extend to 20 years and shall, if he is not sentenced to imprisonment for life, also be liable to fine.