(3) The regulations may provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $10,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both.
Repeal
84.—(1) The Protected Areas and Protected Places Act (Cap. 256) is repealed.
(2) Any written law or document referring to the repealed Act is, as far as necessary for preserving its effect, to be construed as referring to or including a reference to this Act.
Saving and transitional provisions
85.—(1) Any guard or watchman of a protected area or a protected place whose authorisation under section 3 of the repealed Act (to exercise the powers of an authorised officer under the repealed Act in respect of that protected area or that protected place) is in force immediately before the date of commencement of section 6 of this Act—
- (a) may continue to be deployed to guard that protected area or that protected place for a period of one year after the date of commencement of section 6 of this Act (called in this section the permitted deployment); and
- (b) is deemed, during the permitted deployment, to be an authorised officer of that protected area or that protected place under this Act.
(2) Where any area in Singapore is a protected area under section 4(1) of the repealed Act immediately before the date of commencement of section 8(1) of this Act—
- (a) the area is deemed to be a protected area declared under section 8(1) of this Act;
- (b) the order made under section 4(1) of the repealed Act declaring the area to be a protected area is deemed to be a protected area order made under section 8(1) of this Act (called in this section the deemed protected area order);
