Regulation of Imports and Exports (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003

No. S 170

Regulation of Imports and Exports Act

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Regulation of Imports and Exports Act, the Minister for Trade and Industry hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation of Imports and Exports (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2003.

Amendment of regulation 3

2. Regulation 3 of the Regulation of Imports and Exports Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting paragraph (5) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(5) Notwithstanding paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), the Director-General may, on the application of any person and subject to the discretion of the Director-General, grant a permit for the import, export or transhipment of any such goods.”.

Amendment of regulation 8

3. Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), the Director-General may, in his discretion, authorise any importer or exporter or agent acting on behalf of an importer or exporter to take delivery of or despatch any goods without submission of the permit and such authorisation shall be subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the Director-General.”.

Amendment of regulation 11

4. Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “submit to the Board in such manner as the Board may require” in paragraph (2) and substituting the words “submit to the Director-General in such manner as he may require”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(3) The Director-General may, in his discretion and subject to such conditions as he may impose, allow the owner, master or agent of the vessel or aircraft to submit a statement in such form as the Director-General may require in lieu of the documents specified in paragraph (2).”.

Amendment of regulation 12

5. Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

(b)

by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(3) The Director-General may, in his discretion and subject to such conditions as he may impose, allow the owner, master or agent of the vessel or aircraft to submit a statement in such form and manner as the Director-General may require in lieu of the documents specified in paragraph (2).”.

Amendment of regulation 21

6. Regulation 21 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraphs (1) and (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(1) The Director-General may maintain one or more registers in such form as he may determine containing the names and addresses of persons as he may approve as being eligible to receive a certificate of origin.

(2) The Director-General may maintain one or more registers in such form as he may determine containing the particulars of persons he has approved to issue any non-preferential certificate of origin.”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “The Board may in any case which it thinks fit” in paragraph (3) and substituting the words “The Director-General may in any case which he thinks fit”.

Amendment of regulation 23

7. Regulation 23 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (5) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(5) The Director-General may, in his discretion, withdraw any authorisation granted to an organisation or suspend the authorisation for such period as he thinks fit if the organisation fails to comply with any provision of the Act or these Regulations or the conditions, procedures or requirements imposed by the Director-General under this regulation.”.

Amendment of regulation 37

8. Regulation 37(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “The Board may maintain a register in such form as it may decide” and substituting the words “The Director-General may maintain a register in such form as he may decide”.

Amendment of First Schedule

9. The First Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “Chief Executive Officer, Trade Development Board.” in the second column of item 5 in Part A and substituting the words “Director-General, Singapore Customs.”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “Chief Executive Officer, Trade Development Board.” in the second column of Part B and substituting the words “Director-General, Singapore Customs.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

10. The principal Regulations are amended by deleting the word “Board” whenever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “Director-General”:

Regulations 3(1), 4(1), (3) and (4)(a), 10(1)(d), 11(1), (2)(e), (4) and (5), 12(1), (2)(f), (4) and (6), 15(2), 16(2), 17(1) and (2), 18(1) and (2), 20 (definition of “issuing authority”), 21(4) and regulation heading, 22(1), (2), (3) and (4), 23(1), (2), (3) and (4)(a), 24(1), (3) and (4), 24B(2), 26, 27, 28(1), (2), (3) and (4), 30(1) and (2), 31(1), 32(2) and (3), 33(1) and (2), 34(1), 35(1) and (2), 36(1), (2) and (3), 37(2), (3), (4), (5) and (6), 38, 40(1) and (2), 41 and 42(1)(b).

[G.N. Nos. S 591/99; S 27/2000; S 607/2000; S 197/2001; S 79/2003]

Made this 28th day of March 2003.

HENG SWEE KEAT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Trade and Industry,
Singapore.

[MTI 66/1-2-16; AG/LEG/SL/272A/2002/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 3(4) of the Regulation of Imports and Exports Act).

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