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The Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that enables authorities to prosecute offenders for crimes involving illegal drugs.The law is designed specifically to grant the Government of Singapore, through its agencies such as the Central Narcotics Bureau, enforcement powers to combat offences such as the trafficking, importation or exportation, possession, and ...
South Africa: Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 1992; Singapore: Misuse of Drugs Act (Singapore) Sweden: Lag om kontroll av narkotika (SFS 1992:860) Thailand: Psychotropic Substances Act (Thailand) and Narcotics Act; United Kingdom: Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 [44] and Drugs Act 2005 [60] United States: Controlled Substances Act [61]
Singapore is among at least 35 nations that still impose the death penalty for drug offences and is one of the only eight countries in the world to hand out such a sentence regularly.
Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor was a seminal case decided in 2010 by the Court of Appeal of Singapore which, in response to a challenge by Yong Vui Kong, a convicted drug smuggler, held that the mandatory death penalty imposed by the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185, 2001 Rev. Ed.) ("MDA") for certain drug trafficking offences does not infringe Articles 9(1) and 12(1) of the Constitution of ...
Then-Minister for Home Affairs Wong Lin Ken said, "Such activities will be coordinated in the Central Narcotics Bureau. CNB also plans to build a capacity to educate the public in the dangers of drug abuse". In 1973, the Singapore Government introduced the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) to deal with drug traffickers, pushers and addicts. The ...
Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor is a landmark decision delivered in 1980 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from Singapore which deals with the constitutionality of section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (No. 5 of 1973) (now section 17 of the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185, 2008 Rev. Ed.)) ("MDA"), and the mandatory death penalty by the Act for certain offences.
Singapore enforces the death penalty by hanging. It is mandatory for premeditated and aggravated murder and for the possession or trafficking of more than 14 grams (0.49 oz) of heroin in its pure form (diamorphine). [7] According to Amnesty International, some 400 criminals were hanged between 1991 and 2003, mostly for drug offenses and murder ...
Country Summary: Singapore (PDF), Human Rights Watch, January 2009, archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2009; The Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act (PDF), Corporate Communications Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, September 2006, ISBN 978-981-05-5835-2, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2011.