Immigration (Amendment) Regulations 2019

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 29 Mar 2019

No. S 205

Immigration Act

(CHAPTER 133)

Immigration
(Amendment) Regulations 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 55(1) of the Immigration Act, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Immigration (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 1 April 2019.

Amendment of Sixth Schedule

2. The Sixth Schedule to the Immigration Regulations (Rg 1) is amended —

(a)

by deleting “$60” in the second column of item 3(a) and substituting “$105”;

(b)

by deleting “$150” in the second column of item 3(b) and substituting “$225”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “Visit pass” in the first column of item 4, the words “other than a visit pass mentioned in item 4A”; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after item 4, the following item:

“4A.	Visit pass applied, issued or replaced on the basis of the applicant’s relationship with a holder of a work pass issued under section 7 of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (Cap. 91A):

(a)	application for visit pass valid for 90 days or more

$105

(b)	application for extension of validity of visit pass by 90 days or more

$105

(c)	issuance of visit pass valid for 90 days or more

$225

(d)	issuance of extension of visit pass for less than 90 days, but 90 or more days have elapsed since the first grant of visit pass

$40

(e)	issuance of extension of visit pass for 90 days or more

$225

(f)	replacement of lost visit pass valid for 90 days or more:

(i)	first replacement

$100

(ii)	second or subsequent replacement

$300

(g)	replacement of visit pass valid for 90 days or more due to damage, defacement or change of particulars

$60”.

Saving provision

3. Despite regulation 2, items 3 and 4 of the Sixth Schedule to the Immigration Regulations as in force immediately before 1 April 2019 continue to apply to any application made before 1 April 2019 for —

(a)	any dependant’s pass or visit pass; or
(b)	any extension of any visit pass.

[G.N. Nos. S 363/2010; S 213/2011; S 634/2011; S 626/2012; S 172/2013; S 560/2014; S 755/2014; S 168/2015; S 702/2016; S 636/2017; S 610/2018]

Made on 29 March 2019.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[ICA/075/70; AG/LEGIS/SL/133/2015/9 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 55(2) of the Immigration Act).

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