Someone playing with laser pointer in Toa Payoh: Is it legal?
A video of someone in a Housing Board block playing with a laser pointer started circulating online in recent days.
Two Stompers alerted Stomp to the video.
The source of the laser was found to be a flat in Block 179 Toa Payoh Central, according to Shin Min Daily News.
When a Shin Min reporter visited the flat, two women answered the door. They said they didn't know anything and their family members had gone to bed. The reporter noticed a man in his 20s and a maid in the flat.
In Singapore, high-power laser pointers are controlled apparatus under the Radiation Protection Act 2007, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) on its website.
It is an offence to import, export, possess, use, manufacture, sell, deal with or deal in high-power laser pointers without a licence from NEA.
Anyone who does so can be charged in court and is liable on conviction to a fine up to $100,000, imprisonment for a term up to five years or both.
NEA advises against buying laser pointers online.
An investigation by NEA reveals that a significant proportion of these laser pointers are high-power ones improperly labelled as having a lower power output with lower risk.
"This is especially so for the green and blue laser pointers. These high-power lasers are extremely hazardous and are not suitable for sale to or for use by the general public," added the agency.
