Application for and issue of a certificate of status
3.—(1)  A citizen of Singapore who is outside Singapore may, in order to facilitate his entry into Singapore, apply to the Controller for the issue to him of a certificate of status and, where applicable, for the inclusion in the certificate of the name of any child accompanying him who is a citizen of Singapore.
[S 96/96 wef 08/03/1996]
(2)  An application under this regulation may be made on behalf of a citizen of Singapore by a person resident in Singapore.
[S 96/96 wef 08/03/1996]
(3)  Every application under this regulation shall be in such form as the Controller may require and shall be accompanied by —
(a)two recent photographs of the person to whom the certificate is to be issued; and
(b)where the name of any child accompanying him is to be included in the certificate, two recent photographs of the child.
[Subst. by S 96/96 wef 08/03/1996]
(4)  The Controller may, upon being satisfied that the person applying or the person on whose behalf application is made is a citizen of Singapore and upon payment of the prescribed fee, issue a certificate in the Form 2 and, if satisfied that any child accompanying that person and included in the application is a citizen of Singapore, may include the name of the child in the certificate.
(5)  A citizen of Singapore who is resident in Singapore may apply (in such form as the Controller may require) for the issue to him of a certificate, and the Controller may, upon being satisfied that the applicant is a citizen of Singapore, make an endorsement to that effect on the passport or other travel document of the applicant and such endorsement shall be deemed to be a certificate issued under these Regulations.
[S 96/96 wef 08/03/1996]
(6)  A certificate issued or endorsement made under paragraph (4) or (5) respectively shall have validity only so long as the holder of the certificate or passport or other travel document so endorsed continues to be a citizen of Singapore.
(7)  The burden of proof that any person is a citizen of Singapore shall lie upon that person:
Provided that the Controller may accept the status of a person as stated in his passport or other travel document as prima facie evidence of that person’s status.
(8)  Where the Controller is satisfied that the holder of a passport or other travel document endorsed under paragraph (5) has obtained such endorsement by misrepresentation or fraud or is not a citizen of Singapore he may cancel the endorsement, and the holder shall, on being so required by the Controller, forthwith deliver to him the passport or other travel document for cancellation of that endorsement.