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REPRINTS SUPPLEMENT (ACTS) NO. 27 -- SEPTEMBER 14, 1966 935

(b) the commission outside Singapore of any act, in

relation to the affairs or business or on behalf

of a principal residing in Singapore, which if committed in Singapore would be an offence under this Ordinance,

shall be deemed to have committed the offence and shall be liable on conviction to be punished with the punishment provided for such offence.

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28. Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable Attempts. under this Ordinance shall be deemed to have committed the offence and shall be liable on conviction to be punished with the punishment provided for such offence.

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29. Whoever is a party to a criminal conspiracy, within Conspiracy. the meaning of the Penal Code, to commit an offence under Cap. 119. this Ordinance shall be deemed to have committed the offence and shall be liable on conviction to be punished with the punishment provided for such offence.

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30. (1) Every offence under this Ordinance shall be Offences to deemed to be a seizable offence for the purposes of the be seizable. Criminal Procedure Code.

(2) A public officer to whom any gratification is corruptly given or offered shall arrest the person who gives or offers such gratification to him and make over the person so arrested to the nearest police station and if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.

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Cap. 132.

31. A prosecution under this Ordinance shall not be Prosecutions. instituted except by or with the consent of the Public to be Prosecutor.

instituted

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consent of Public Prosecutor.

Court to have

32. Notwitstanding the provisions of any written law to District the contrary, a District Court shall have jurisdiction to try any offence under this Ordinance and to award the full punishment for such offence.

jurisdiction

to try

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under this Ordinance.

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