Clarification by Senior Minister of State for Law

Senior Minister of State Mr Edwin Tong. I understand that you wish to make a clarification.

Mr Deputy Speaker, with your leave, I wish to correct a factual error in my response speech during the Second Reading of the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill on 8 March 2019.

Please proceed.

In my speech, I referred to a 2008 extract from the Hansard. [Please refer to "Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Bill", Official Report, 8 March 2019, Vol 94, Issue No 101, Second Reading Bills section.] It has subsequently been brought to my attention that the excerpt I read was in fact from 2013. And I wish to correct this error for the record. Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker.

Yes, correction noted. Leader of the House.