before which the proceedings is being conducted, in its discretion, permits the affidavit to be used without the person so appearing.
Powers of police officer
138.—(1) Any police officer may arrest without warrant any person who, in any street or public place—
- (a) sells or exposes or offers for sale; or
- (b) has, or is reasonably suspected of having, in his possession for the purpose of selling or letting for hire,
any infringing copy of any work or other subject-matter.
(2) Any police officer may stop and search and forcibly board any vehicle in which he reasonably suspects that there is any infringing copy of any work or other subject-matter and seize, remove or detain any such infringing copy and anything which appears to him to be or to contain, or likely to be or to contain, evidence of an offence under this Act.
Advertisement for supply of infringing copies of computer programs
139.—(1) Any person who, by any means, publishes, or causes to be published, in Singapore an advertisement for the supply in Singapore (whether from within or outside Singapore) of a copy of a computer program which is an infringing copy shall, unless he proves that he acted in good faith and had no reasonable grounds for supposing that copyright would or might thereby be infringed, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a transmission of a computer program that, when received and recorded, will result in the creation of a copy of the computer program shall be deemed to constitute the supply of a copy of the computer program at the place where the copy will be created.
