Long Title

Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II REGISTRATION OF CRIMINALS

Part IIA SPENT CRIMINAL RECORDS

Part III TAKING OF FINGER IMPRESSIONS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND PARTICULARS

Part IV tAKING OF BODY SAMPLES

Part V MISCELLANEOUS

FIRST SCHEDULE Registrable Crimes

SECOND SCHEDULE Registrable Crimes in Respect of Which Registration May be Dispensed With under Section 7

THIRD SCHEDULE Offences for Which Criminal Record Cannot be Spent

Legislative History

PART V
MISCELLANEOUS
[45/2002 wef 13/02/2003]
Removal of registrable particulars, etc., of person upon death or attainment of 100 years of age
13H.  The Registrar shall remove from the register and from the DNA database the registrable particulars and DNA information of any person —
(a)
whose death has been registered under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act (Cap. 267); or
(b)
who, the Registrar is satisfied, has attained 100 years of age.
Evidence
14.
—(1)  Subject to subsection (2) —
(a)
any photograph, finger impression or registrable particulars recorded in the register;
(b)
any record from the DNA database;
(c)
any certificate or report purporting to have been compiled from particulars recorded in the register or DNA database under the provisions of this Act; and
(d)
any document purporting to be a report upon any matter or thing relating to finger impressions or DNA information duly submitted to the Registrar for report,
shall, if duly produced from proper custody and authenticated by the signature of the Registrar, be admissible in evidence in any court, and shall be sufficient proof of the facts thereon stated or appearing unless the same is disproved.
(2)  Notwithstanding subsection (1), in any trial at which any of the matters referred to in subsection (1) is tendered in evidence, the court or the accused may require that the Registrar shall be called as a witness.
(3)  Where the accused requires the Registrar to be called as a witness, the accused shall give notice to the Public Prosecutor not less than 3 clear days before the commencement of the trial.
[45/2002 wef 13/02/2003]
Rules
14A.
—(1)  The Minister may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act and for any matter which is required under this Act to be prescribed.
(2)  All rules made under this Act shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.
Power to vary Schedules
15.  The Minister may by order delete any provision from, or add to or vary the provisions of, the Schedules.
Saving
16.  The Registrar shall have the custody of all records of criminals and particulars which would be registrable particulars under this Act held immediately before the commencement of this Act by any Registrar of Criminals in Singapore, and such records and particulars whether taken, received or registered in accordance with the provisions of any written law for the time being in force or not, shall be deemed to have been duly taken or received and, when registered, shall, for all purposes of this Act, be deemed to be comprised in and form part of the register maintained under this Act.