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{{Infobox legislation
|caption = [[Old Parliament House, Singapore|Old Parliament House]], photographed in January 2006
|short_title = Vandalism Act 1966
|long_title = An Act to provide for exemplary punishment for acts of vandalism and to make special provisions in regard to certain offences relating to public property.
|citation =
|enacted_by = [[Parliament of Singapore]]
|date_enacted = 26 August 1966
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The '''Vandalism Act 1966''' is a [[sources of Singapore law#Statutes|statute]] of the [[Parliament of Singapore|Parliament]] of [[Singapore]] that criminalizes a number of different acts done in relation to public and private property, namely, stealing, destroying or damaging public property; and, without the property owner's written consent, writing, drawing, painting, marking or inscribing on property; affixing posters, placards, ''etc.'', to the property; and suspending or displaying on or from the property any flag, banner, ''etc.''
In addition to a fine or jail term, the Act imposes [[mandatory sentencing|mandatory]] [[judicial corporal punishment|corporal punishment]] of between three and eight strokes of the [[caning in Singapore|cane]] for second or subsequent convictions. Caning is also imposed for first convictions for defacing property using an indelible substance; and stealing, destroying or damaging public property. The [[Children and Young Persons Act (Singapore)|Children and Young Persons Act]] ("CYPA") states that the [[High Court (Singapore)|High Court]] may impose a caning penalty on juvenile offenders as well. In a 1968 case, the High Court held that despite the wording of this provision, a [[Subordinate Courts of Singapore|subordinate court]] may sentence juveniles to caning under the Vandalism Act as that Act takes precedence over the CYPA.
The 1994 conviction of 18-year-old American citizen [[Michael P. Fay]] for vandalizing cars using spray paint, and the sentence of six strokes of the cane imposed on him, provoked much controversy with both condemnation and support from Americans. Following a request by [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Bill Clinton]] for [[pardon|clemency]], [[President of Singapore|President]] [[Ong Teng Cheong]] [[commutation of sentence|commuted]] Fay's caning sentence from six to four strokes. In 2010, a Swiss national, [[Oliver Fricker]], pleaded guilty to charges of trespassing into a [[Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)|Mass Rapid Transit]] depot and spray-painting a train with an accomplice, and was sentenced to five months' jail and three strokes of the cane. On appeal, the High Court increased his total jail term to seven months, leaving the caning sentence unchanged.
==History==
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===Michael Fay (1994)===
On 3 March 1994, [[Michael P. Fay]], an 18-year-old American citizen, pleaded guilty to two charges of vandalizing18 cars by spray-painting them, damaging them using hot tar, paint remover, and hatchets, pelting eggs at them, slashing the tires of taxis, scratching and denting cars, and kicking the door of a car and bashing it with a brick between 17 and 18 September 1993 together with three accomplices. One of the cars belonged to [[Judicial Commissioner]] Amarjeet Singh. Fay was sentenced by a District Court to two months' imprisonment and three strokes of the cane on each charge.<ref>''Fay Michael Peter'', paras. 1–2.</ref> The High Court later rejected an appeal against the sentence.<ref>''Fay Michael Peter''.</ref> The caning sentence provoked much controversy in the United States, and was condemned as cruel and excessive for a non-violent offence.<ref>{{
{{citation|author=William Branigin|title=Singapore reduces American's sentence|url=http://www.corpun.com/sgju9405.htm#3693|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=5 May 1994}}; {{citation|author=Philip Serwell|author2=Patricia Wilson|title='Mistake' says Clinton as American is caned|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=6 May 1994}}; {{citation|author=Philip Shenon|title=Singapore carries out caning of U.S. teenager|newspaper=[[International Herald Tribune]]|date=6 May 1994}}.</ref>
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===Rooftop of Block 85A Toa Payoh Lorong (2014)===
Five youths were charged with vandalism for spray painting graffiti on a large
===SMRT train at Bishan Depot (2014)===
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*{{citation|last=Bahrampour|first=Firouzeh|title=The Caning of Michael Fay: Can Singapore's Punishment Withstand the Scrutiny of International Law?|journal=American University Journal of International Law and Policy|year=1994–1995|volume=10|page=1075}}.
*{{citation|last=Hodson|first=Joel|title=A Case for American Studies: The Michael Fay Affair, Singapore–US Relations, and American Studies in Singapore|journal=American Studies International|year=2003|volume=41}}.
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*{{citation|last=Lal|first=Vinay|title=The Flogging of Michael Fay: Culture of Authoritarianism|jstor=4401297|journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]]|date=4 June 1994|volume=29|issue=23|pages=1386–1388}}.
*{{citation|last=Yao|first=Souchou|chapter=Pain, Words, Violence: The Caning of Michael Fay|title=Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess|location=Abingdon, Oxford; New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2007|pages=75–96|isbn=978-0-415-41711-2}}.
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