Immigration (Exemption from Section 6) (Amendment) Order 2008

No. S 443

Immigration Act

(Chapter 133)

Immigration (Exemption from Section 6) (Amendment) Order 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56 of the Immigration Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Exemption from Section 6) (Amendment) Order 2008 and shall come into operation on 15th September 2008.

Deletion and substitution of paragraph 2

2. Paragraph 2 of the Immigration (Exemption from Section 6) Order 2005 (G.N. No. S 648/2005) (referred to in this Order as the principal Order) is deleted and the following paragraph substituted therefor:

“Definitions

2. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires —

“air service” means a service comprising the carriage of passengers or cargo for hire by means of an aircraft;

“airline crew member” means a person who is employed as a flight crew member by an international air carrier or other air service;

“permanent resident” means a person who is not subject to any restriction under the Act as to his period of residence in Singapore.”.

Amendment of paragraph 3

3. Paragraph 3(1) of the principal Order is amended by deleting the words “(not being permanent residents)”.

Deletion and substitution of Second and Third Schedules

4. The Second and Third Schedules to the principal Order are deleted and the following Schedules substituted therefor:

“SECOND SCHEDULE

Paragraph 3(1)(b)

1. Any member of the Singapore Armed Forces travelling on duty.

2. Any non-citizen (but not a permanent resident) airline crew member of an international air carrier or other air service who, in the course of a journey on duty from a place outside Singapore to Singapore, or from a place outside Singapore to a place outside Singapore —

(a)	travels to Singapore in the course of his employment as a flight crew member on an aircraft of that international air carrier or other air service;
(b)	is expected to leave Singapore in the course of his employment as a member of the flight crew of, or as a passenger on, such an aircraft within 30 days after arriving in Singapore; and
(c)	enters Singapore at an authorised airport.

3. Any head of state of a foreign territory who is a guest of the Government.

THIRD SCHEDULE

Paragraph 4

1. Any head of state of a foreign territory who is a guest of the Government.

2. Any non-citizen (but not a permanent resident) airline crew member of an international air carrier or other air service referred to in item 2 of the Second Schedule who leaves Singapore from an authorised airport as a member of the flight crew of, or as a passenger on, an aircraft of an international air carrier or other air service within 30 days after arriving in Singapore.

3. A non-citizen leaving Singapore from an authorised departing place or authorised point of departure, which has available an automated identification processing system for the immigration clearance of persons registered in the system, and the non-citizen can obtain his immigration clearance by using the system (such as by providing a personal identifier of his as evidence of his identity).”.

Made this 29th day of August 2008.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/037; AG/LEG/SL/133/2002/1 Vol. 5]

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