Customs (Container) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

No. S 642

Customs Act

(CHAPTER 70)

Customs
(Container) (Amendment)
Regulations 2013

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 (Container) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 31st October 2013.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Customs (Container) Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the definition of “container freight station”.

Amendment of regulation 4

3. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or to a container freight station inside customs territory”.

Deletion of regulation 5

4. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is deleted.

Amendment of regulation 8

5. Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (2).

Amendment of regulation 9

6. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or container freight station”.

Amendment of regulation 11

7. Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “or container freight station” in paragraph (1);
(b)	by deleting the words “or container freight station” in paragraph (2)(c);
(c)	by inserting, at the end of paragraph (2)(c), the word “and”;
(d)	by deleting sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (2);
(e)	by deleting the words “or container freight station, as the case may be,” in paragraph (2)(e);
(f)	by deleting the word “; and” at the end of the paragraph (2)(e) and substituting a full-stop;
(g)	by deleting sub-paragraph (f) of paragraph (2); and
(h)	by deleting the words “or station” in the regulation heading.

Amendment of regulation 14

8. Regulation 14 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or container freight station” wherever they appear.

Deletion of regulation 15

9. Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations is deleted.

Amendment of regulation 16

10. Regulation 16 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (2);

(b)

by deleting sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (3); and

(c)

by deleting paragraph (4) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(4) No person shall, without prior permission of the proper officer of customs, tamper with, open, break, alter or remove any lock, seal or other safeguards used in respect of a container under paragraph (1).”.

Amendment of regulation 18

11. Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or container freight station”.

Amendment of regulation 19

12. Regulation 19 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “of any container at a container freight station or”.

Amendment of regulation 20

13. Regulation 20(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “a notice in writing” and substituting the word “notice”.

Deletion of regulation 21

14. Regulation 21 of the principal Regulations is deleted.

[G. N. No. S 791/2004]

Made this 2nd day of October 2013.

LIM SOO HOON

Permanent Secretary
(Finance) (Performance),
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[Customs (Conf) 0106/2005/V1 (3); AG/LLRD/SL/70/2010/20 Vol. 1]

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

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