Interpretation
2.—(1)  In this Act —
“arms” includes firearms, air-guns, air-pistols, automatic guns, automatic pistols, and guns or any other kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged or noxious fumes or noxious substance can be emitted and any component part of any such arms, and bayonets, swords, daggers, spears and spearheads;
“authorised military device” means any explosive manufactured solely for lawful military or police purposes, including but not limited to a shell, bomb, projectile, mine, missile, rocket, shaped charge, grenade or perforater;
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“authorised military or police personnel” means —
(a)any member of the Singapore Armed Forces;
(b)any member of the Singapore Police Force; or
(c)any person who performs military functions for the Ministry of Defence or the Singapore Armed Forces;
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“authorised person” means —
(a)the Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation; or
(b)any other auxiliary police force established under any written law and which is authorised by the Licensing Officer to accept the deposit of guns, arms or explosives under section 15(1);
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“carriage” includes any carriage, wagon, cart, truck or other vehicle used for the conveyance of goods or passengers by land, in whatever manner the same is propelled or moved;
“Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation” means the Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation established under the Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation Act (Cap. 47);
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“deal in”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes repair, sell, keep or expose for sale;
“detection agent” means any of the substances set out in the Schedule and which —
(a)is intended to be used to enhance the detectability of explosives by vapour detection means;
(b)is introduced into a plastic explosive during its manufacture in such a manner as to achieve homogeneous distribution in the finished product; and
(c)is present in the plastic explosive in such concentration no less than that specified in the fourth column of the Schedule;
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“explosive”  —
(a)means gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powder, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires and every other substance, whether similar to those abovementioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to producing a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect;
(b)includes fog signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, percussion-caps, detonators, cartridges and ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined; and
(c)includes sand crackers, and any substance declared to be deemed an explosive by notification under section 5(1)(a);
“gun” includes howitzers, mortars, quick-firing and machine-guns, and other guns of a similar nature;
“high explosives” includes but is not limited to cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine (HMX), pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) and cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX);
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“licensed dealer” means a person licensed under this Act to manufacture or deal in arms or guns;
“Licensing Officer” means the person appointed by the Minister under section 9 and includes an Assistant Licensing Officer;
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“manufacture” includes the preparation of any component parts of an explosive, the admixture or other treatment of the same, the breaking up or unmaking of any explosive, and the process of remaking or making fit for use any damaged explosive, and the process of remaking, altering or repairing any explosive;
“master” includes every person having command or charge of a vessel other than a pilot of a vessel;
“plastic explosive” means any explosive which —
(a)is formulated with one or more high explosives which in their pure form have vapour pressure of less than 10-4 Pa at a temperature of 25°C;
(b)is formulated with a binder material; and
(c)is, when mixed, malleable or flexible at normal room temperature;
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“pilot-in-command” means the pilot designated by the operator or the owner of an aircraft as being in command and charged with the safe conduct of a flight;
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“Port Master” has the same meaning as in the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996;
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“railway administration” means any person or body of persons responsible for the regulation of traffic on any railway;
“unmarked plastic explosive” means any plastic explosive that does not contain a detection agent;
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“vessel” includes any steam or sailing ship, junk, boat, sampan or any kind of craft used for the conveyance of persons or things by water.
(2)  A person shall be deemed to export an article from Singapore to a particular country, territory or place if he takes or sends the article out of Singapore with the intention that it shall ultimately reach that country, territory or place, either directly or indirectly.
(3)  A person shall be deemed to have imported an article into Singapore who, whether as owner, consignee, agent or broker, is in possession of or in any way entitled to the custody or control of the article.