(1)Any police officer, not below the rank of sergeant, upon being satisfied that any person has in his possession any forged or counterfeit currency note or bank note or any machinery, instrument or material used or intended to be used for the forging or counterfeiting of any currency note or bank note, may without warrant and with or without assistance enter and search any place where any such currency note or bank note or any such machinery, instrument or material is kept and seize all such notes, machinery, instrument or material.
Section history
Section 489E — Abetting in Singapore counterfeiting of currency out of Singapore
Consolidated view is experimental and may be broken for certain provisions.
Amendments
Section 489E — Original text to 1 February 2008superseded
(2)Anything seized under subsection (1) shall, by order of the court before which any person is tried relating to such possession, or where there is no trial, by order of a Magistrate, be forfeited and shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of in such manner as the Minister may direct.
Section 489E — 1 February 2008 to 1 January 2020repealed by Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2007
Section 489E — From 1 January 2020 (current)rewritten by Criminal Law Reform Act 2019
Whoever, being within Singapore, abets the counterfeiting of any currency out of Singapore, shall be punished in the same manner as if he abetted the counterfeiting of such currency within Singapore.