s 5–s 7 · 3 sections
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Appointment of Commissioner of Infrastructure Protection and other officers
5.—(1) The Minister may, from among public officers, appoint a Commissioner of Infrastructure Protection, and any number of Deputy Commissioners of Infrastructure Protection and Assistant Commissioners of Infrastructure Protection that the Minister considers necessary for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Commissioner is, subject to the general and special directions of the Minister, responsible for the administration of this Act.
(3) Every Deputy Commissioner of Infrastructure Protection and Assistant Commissioner of Infrastructure Protection may, subject to the conditions or restrictions that the Commissioner may impose, perform the functions and exercise the powers of the Commissioner under this Act.
Authorisation of security officers
6.—(1) The Commissioner of Police may, subject to the conditions or restrictions that the Commissioner of Police thinks fit, authorise a security officer to be deployed to guard protected areas and protected places.
(2) The Commissioner of Police may authorise a security officer under subsection (1) on the application of —(a)
the security agency that supplies or intends to supply the services of the security officer to the authority of a protected area or protected place; or
(b)
the authority of a protected area or protected place that intends to deploy the security officer at that protected area or protected place.
(3) The application must be made in such form and manner, and be accompanied or supported by such information and documents, as the Commissioner of Police may require.
(4) The authorisation of a security officer under subsection (1) lapses on the earlier of the following:(a)
the date on which the Commissioner of Police revokes the authorisation;
(b)
the date on which the security officer ceases to be a security officer.
(5) The authorisation of a security officer under subsection (1), and any revocation of that authorisation under subsection (4)(a), must be in writing, and the written instrument must be given to the security officer.
(6) In this section, “Commissioner of Police” includes a police officer of the rank of assistant superintendent or above who is authorised by the Commissioner of Police to act for the Commissioner of Police for the purposes of this section.
Authorised officers to be public servants
7. Any person who, in the course of his or her duty as an authorised officer of a protected area or a protected place, exercises any power of an authorised officer under Part 3 is taken to be a public servant for the purposes of the Penal Code 1871 when exercising that power.
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