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NO. 27 OF 2018


(h) an order prohibiting a person from visiting or communicating with the vulnerable adult;
(i) an order requiring one or more persons, including the vulnerable adult, to attend counselling and such other programme provided by a body as directed by the court;
(j) subject to subsection (2), where the condition of the vulnerable adult’s residence poses a risk to the safety or health of the vulnerable adult, an order—
(i) authorising the Director, a protector or another person to make, with such assistance as the Director, protector or other person may reasonably require, the residence a safe living environment; and
(ii) authorising the disposal by the Director, protector or other person of any article or thing in the residence, with or without the consent of the owner of that article or thing, to make the residence a safe living environment.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the court may only make an order under subsection (1)(j)—

(a) with the consent of every owner of the residence and of the vulnerable adult; or
(b) where the owner or owners (if there is more than one owner) of the residence cannot be located after reasonable attempts to locate the owner or owners (as the case may be) have been made by the Director or a protector—
(i) with the consent of the vulnerable adult; and
(ii) after a notice by advertisement of the proposed order has been published in—
(A) an English newspaper and one other newspaper of such language as directed by the court (both of which must be in circulation in Singapore); or