Section 5

If as respects any place or premises it appears to the Minister* to be necessary or expedient that special precautions should be taken to prevent the entry therein of unauthorised persons, he may by order declare such place or premises to be a protected place for the purposes of this Act; and so long as the order is in force no person shall, subject to any exemptions for which provision may be made in the order, be in that place or those premises unless he has received the permission of such authority or person as may be specified in the order or of an authorised officer on duty at those premises, to enter the place or premises.

Where, in pursuance of this section, any person is granted permission to be in a protected place, that person shall, while acting under such permission, comply with such directions for regulating his conduct as may be given by the authority or person granting the permission; and an authorised officer, or any person authorised in that behalf by the occupier of the premises, may search any person entering, or seeking to enter, or being in, a protected place, and may detain any such person for the purpose of searching him.

If any person is in a protected place in contravention of this section, or while in such a place fails to comply with any direction given under this section, then, without prejudice to any proceedings which may be taken against him, he may be removed from the place by an authorised officer or any person authorised in that behalf by the occupier of the premises.

* Transferred from the Mentri Besar to the Minister of Home Affairs, with effect from 1st January 1984 —

Protected Areas and Protected Places

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