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On 23/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 23/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 23/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 02/01/2011.
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Execution of warrant of arrest and detention
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—(1)  The police or prison officer executing a warrant of arrest and detention shall notify the substance thereof to the person arrested or detained and, if so required, shall show him the warrant or a copy thereof under the hand of the authority by whom it was issued.
(2)  Where in execution of a warrant of arrest and detention any person is arrested or is required to be further detained in prison after the expiration of any sentence of imprisonment passed upon him, the officer executing the warrant shall without unnecessary delay, and in any case within 24 hours (excluding the time of any necessary journey) from the arrest or from the expiration of the sentence, produce the person arrested or so detained before a Magistrate who shall, upon production of the warrant duly signed and upon proof of the identity of the person arrested or detained with the person named in the warrant, by order endorsed on the warrant, commit the person to prison, there to be detained in accordance with the tenor of the warrant:
Provided that if that person proves that he is a citizen of Singapore or an exempted person the Magistrate shall order that person forthwith to be released.