The permanently closed Rochor Centre will be used as a firing ground for military exercise between July 15 to 21, 2017.

The notice for the planned exercise was made public on July 13, 2017, as a Subsidiary Legislation Supplement available on the Singapore Statues Online site.

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The PDF document which mentions that it was first published in the Government Gazette, Electronic Edition, on July 13, 2017, at 5pm, is as follows:

According to the Military Manoeuvres Act:

It shall be lawful for the Minister from time to time by proclamation to declare —

(a) that any area specified in the proclamation shall be a manoeuvring ground; or

(b) that any area specified in the proclamation shall be a firing ground,

and from time to time in the like manner to declare that any such area or part of that area shall cease to be a manoeuvring ground or a firing ground, as the case may be.

The act also states what actions can constitute an offence:

Offences

6.—(1) If within a manoeuvring ground and during the continuance of any military manoeuvres under this Act, any person —

(a) wilfully and unlawfully interferes with the execution of the manoeuvres;

(b) without due authority enters or remains in any camp;

(c) without due authority moves any flag or other mark distinguishing for the purposes of the manoeuvres any lands; or

(d) maliciously cuts or damages any telegraph or telephone wire laid down by or for the use of the forces engaged in the manoeuvres,

he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

(2) Such person may be arrested without a warrant and any animal or vehicle under his charge may be removed by any police officer or by order of any commissioned officer of the forces engaged in the manoeuvres.

 

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