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The Kidnapping Act 1961 is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that criminalizes the illegal abduction, wrongful restraints and wrongful confinement of any person. The law is designed specifically to make acts of knowingly seeking and receiving ransom in connection with the kidnap of any person a criminal offence.
Other serious offences are created by statutes such as the Arms Offences Act, Kidnapping Act, Misuse of Drugs Act and Vandalism Act. Singapore retains both corporal punishment (in the form of caning) and capital punishment (by hanging) as legal penalties. For certain offences, the imposition of these penalties is mandatory.
The Penal Code does not define and list exhaustively all the criminal offences applicable in Singapore – a large number of these are created by other statutes such as the Arms Offences Act, [3] Kidnapping Act, [4] Misuse of Drugs Act [5] and Vandalism Act. [6]
The case of Ng Lye Poh's abduction, dubbed the Sheng Siong kidnapping in Singaporean media, had shocked the nation, as kidnapping was an extremely rare crime to happen in Singapore. It was a contrast to the 1950s and 1960s, when many rich businessmen and/or their family members were frequently targeted by kidnappers for ransom in Singapore, and ...
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Manitoba: The Child Custody Enforcement Act, CCSM c C360. New Brunswick: International Child Abduction Act, RSNB 2011, c 175. Newfoundland and Labrador: Children's Law Act, RSNL 1990, c C-13, s 54. Northwest Territories: International Child Abduction Act, RSNWT 1988, c I-5. Nova Scotia: Child Abduction Act, RSNS 1989, c 67.
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