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Clause 56 provides that the Minister may authorise an authorised officer to
exercise the powers of investigation given by the Criminal Procedure Code
(Cap. 68) and set out in the Schedule to the Bill.
Clause 57 provides the power to compound offences that are prescribed as
compoundable.
Clauses 58 and 59 are standard provisions regarding the liability of officers of
corporations, unincorporated associations and partnerships which have committed
an offence under Part 2.
Clause 60 enables a court to try a person who commits outside Singapore an
offence with extra-territorial application under the Bill, as if it had been committed
in Singapore. It also gives a District Court or Magistrate’s Court the jurisdiction to
try any offence under the Bill and to impose the full punishment.
Clause 61 enables the Minister to exempt a person or class of persons from any
provision of the Bill.
Clause 62 is a regulation-making power.
EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONEY
This Bill will involve the Government in extra financial expenditure, the exact
amount of which cannot at present be ascertained.
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