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Generally, the speed limits in Singapore are 50 km/h unless stated otherwise. [1] The speed limit is restricted to 40 km/h in School Zones, and 40 km/h or 30 km/h in Silver Zones. [1] [2] Most expressways have speed limits of either 80 km/h or 90 km/h. Offenders who are caught speeding will be fined and/or jailed. [3] [4]
From 2020 to 2022, at least 240 people were convicted of money laundering offences (largely related to domestic scams) and a total of $1.2 billion worth of assets were seized. [78] In August 2023, the police arrested ten foreign nationals on suspicion of committing offences such as forgery and money laundering. [ 79 ]
The Penal Code defines the elements of each offence and prescribes the maximum, and occasionally also the minimum, penalties for it. The basic form of an offence (commonly referred to as the 'simple offence' or, using Latin terminology, as the 'offence simpliciter') has the lowest penalties. More serious forms of the offence are defined as ...
In jurisdictions which use a point system, the police or licensing authorities maintain a record of the demerit points accumulated by each driver. Traffic offenses, such as speeding or disobeying traffic signals, are each assigned a certain number of points, and when a driver is determined to be guilty of a particular offence, the corresponding number of points are added to the driver's total.
The Highway Code and Road Traffic Act speeding limits only apply to motor vehicles and their drivers. While local authorities can impose speed limits on cyclists, it has been rarely done. Show ...
Traffic signals along Stamford Road, Singapore. In Singapore, the courts are said to emphasise a largely green-light approach towards administrative law. A red-light perspective of administrative law embodies deep-rooted suspicion of governmental power and a desire to minimise the encroachment of the state on the rights of individuals.
In the Singapore High Court case of Pillay, [27] the Public Prosecutor appealed against a magistrate's decision that rules requiring people to pay a fee for a permit before driving motor vehicles into an area of the city designated as the "restricted zone" were ultra vires section 90(1) of the Road Traffic Act, [28] the relevant part of which ...
Under section 65F of the Income Tax Act, [12] and section 83E of the Good and Services Tax Act, [13] an officer of IRAS may make an arrest for offences under the same acts. Furthermore, under section 65H of the Income Tax Act, [12] and section 83G of the Good and Services Tax Act, [13] an officer of IRAS may also be armed.