Customs (Amendment) Regulations 2008 - Singapore Statutes Online

No. S 191

Customs Act

(Chapter 70)

Customs (Amendment) Regulations 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 143(1) of the Customs Act, the Minister for Finance hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Customs (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 4th April 2008.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Customs Regulations (Rg 2) is amended by deleting the words “section 50, 51, 63 or 66” in the definition of “licensed premises” and substituting the words “section 51, 63, 66 or 83”.

Deletion of Parts IV and V

3. Parts IV and V of the Customs Regulations are deleted.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 63

4. Regulation 63 of the Customs Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Applications for licences

63. For the purpose of section 63 of the Act, every application for a licence to manufacture any dutiable goods shall be made in writing to the Director-General specifying —

(a)	the name, identity card number and address of the applicant;
(b)	the name of the street or exact locality and number of the premises, or the lot number of the ground upon which it is intended to build the premises, where it is desired to carry on the manufacture;
(c)	the nature of the goods to be produced, the output proposed and whether for local consumption or for export or both; and
(d)	the security offered for the due payment of all duties and fees and for the proper conduct of the business.”.

Deletion of regulation 68

5. Regulation 68 of the Customs Regulations is deleted.

Amendment of regulation 69

6. Regulation 69 of the Customs Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “Minister” in paragraph (1) and substituting the word “Director-General”;

(b)

by deleting the words “, if so directed by the Minister,” in paragraph (2); and

(c)

by deleting the regulation heading and substituting the following regulation heading:

“Approval of applications”.

Deletion of regulation 84

7. Regulation 84 of the Customs Regulations is deleted.

Amendment of regulation 143

8. Regulation 143 of the Customs Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “sections 50, 51, 63, 66 and 82” in paragraph (1) and substituting the words “sections 51, 63, 66, 82 and 83”; and
(b)	by deleting paragraph (3).

Amendment of regulation 144

9. Regulation 144(1) of the Customs Regulations is amended by deleting the words “sections 50, 51, 63, 66 and 82” and substituting the words “sections 51, 63, 66, 82 and 83”.

Miscellaneous amendments

10. The Customs Regulations are amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “, licensed factory warehouse” wherever they appear in the following regulations:

Regulations 10(1), 11(1) and (3) and regulation heading, 12(5), 54(a) and (b), 55(1), 60(1), 61(1), 62 and 97; and

(b)

by deleting the words “the Health Sciences Authority” in regulations 60(4), 61(2) and 62 and substituting in each case the words “such laboratory as the Director-General may specify”.

Amendment of Second Schedule

11. The Second Schedule to the Customs Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the word “place” in the definition of “projected potential duty” in item 1(2), the word “or places”;

(b)

by deleting the definition of “past average monthly duty” in item 1(2) and substituting the following definition:

“ “past average monthly duty” means the average of the total customs and excise duties of all goods warehoused in the area of the place or places concerned on the 1st day of each month during the period of 12 months (or, if the area of the place or places have been used to warehouse goods for a shorter period, that shorter period) before the date of the application.”;

(c)

by deleting item 2 and substituting the following item:

“

2. Licence —

(a) to ferment or manufacture ale, beer, stout or porter

$43,200 for one year

(b) to distill, ferment or manufacture any other intoxicating liquors

$28,000 for one year

”;

(d)

by inserting, immediately after the words “duty-free shop” in item 8, the words “or duty-free shops”; and

(e)

by deleting item 9 and substituting the following item:

“

9. Composite licence

The highest of the annual licence fees payable on the separate activities approved under the licence as set out in this Schedule or the Schedule to the Goods and Services Tax (General) Regulations (Cap. 117A, Rg 1), as the case may be, had the licences been issued individually for each activity.

”.

[G.N. Nos. S 444/2002; S 595/2002; S 128/2003; S 157/2003; S 63/2004; S 87/2004; S 202/2006; S693/2006]

Made this 31st day of March 2008.

TEO MING KIAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[Customs 0102/71/V27; MF(R) R017.005.0001 Vol. 5; AG/LEG/SL/70/2005/3 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 143(2) of the Customs Act).

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