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Source: Straits Times, 09 July 2009
A growing number like him have flouted rule on unauthorised travel
By Carolyn Quek & Teh Joo Lin
WHEN a retiree flew to Vietnam on his son’s passport in June last year, the immigration authorities came under fire.
But it has since come to light that his son – an undischarged bankrupt barred from unauthorised travel – had used that same passport in the year before the incident to make 30 trips abroad without official approval.
By Zakir Hussain
MR SIN Boon Ann (Tampines GRC) asked if the Government had gone for the ‘overkill’ when it crafted the Public Order Bill such that even a one-man assembly would need a permit.
Nominated MP Thio Li-ann wondered if an assembly of one, or a procession of two, was ‘too wide and extreme a definition, too restrictive of civil liberties’. In Hong Kong, the law defines a procession needing a permit as one with more than 30 persons.
Ms Irene Ng (Tampines GRC) felt that to label as ‘assembly’ a one-man show was to ‘commit violence against the English language’.
THREE Members of the House yesterday opposed the new public order rules, arguing that these gave overarching powers to the police without sufficient checks and balances.
The trio were Mr Low Thia Khiang (Hougang), Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim and Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong.
At the heart of their objections were the two most contentious provisions in the new Public Order Act: the move-on order and restrictions on filming of certain security operations.
THE space for political expression in Singapore has expanded substantially since 2000, and it is in this context that the new public order rules should be viewed.
Second Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam said this when responding to Nominated MP Siew Kum Hong on the Public Order Bill which gives police more effective powers to maintain public order.
Mr Siew had contended that the need to obtain permits for assemblies – though a long-standing rule – ‘emasculated’ the right to freedom of assembly.
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But police will get new powers over outdoor events promoting causes
By Zakir Hussain
THE Public Order Act marks a ‘very substantial relaxation’ of the law governing public events, as 50 per cent of the activities that now require permits will no longer need them.
Second Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam reiterated this in Parliament yesterday after a three-hour debate on the new legislation, in which 12 MPs spoke.
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