The master or person in charge of a merchant vessel, on board of which any deserter from the Singapore Armed Forces or any visiting forces lawfully present in Singapore is concealed, shall, though ignorant of such concealment, be liable to a penalty not exceeding $5002008$1,5002008, if he might have known of such concealment, but for some neglect of his duty as such master or person in charge, or but for some want of discipline on board of the vessel.
Section history
Section 137 — Deserter concealed on board merchant vessel through negligence of master
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 137 — Original text to 1 January 2020superseded
Section 137 — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten (not yet redlined) — Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
The master or person in charge of a merchant vessel, on board of which any deserter from the Singapore Armed Forces or any visiting forces lawfully present in Singapore is concealed, shall, though ignorant of such concealment, be punished with a fine not exceeding $1,500, if he might have known of such concealment, but for some neglect of his duty as such master or person in charge, or but for some want of discipline on board of the vessel.
[Indian PC 1860, s. 137]