Exemption from payment of passenger service charge and passenger security service charge
12.  The following persons are exempted from payment of the passenger service charge and passenger security service charge:
(a)operating crew required to perform duties on an aircraft or travelling on an aircraft in order to commence duties on an aircraft from another destination but not employees of an aircraft operator travelling on its aircraft other than as part of the operating crew;
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(b)any passenger aboard any aircraft specified in paragraph 5;
(c)any passenger who does not leave the transit area or who leaves the transit area because of interruption to a flight at the aerodrome caused by the unserviceability of an aircraft or the unavailability of an essential facility or caused by delay beyond the control of the passenger or the airline operator concerned;
(d)any passenger who, as evidenced by his passenger ticket, is scheduled to depart from Singapore by an aircraft within 24 hours of his scheduled time of arrival for a destination in another country other than the country from which he embarked on the aircraft by which he arrived in Singapore;
(e)infants below the age of two years;
(f)service personnel and their dependants embarking on aircraft operating on charter flights on behalf of the Joint Services Movement Control of the United Kingdom;
(g)Republic of Singapore military personnel travelling for military purposes on an aircraft that is not a military aircraft;
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(h)any person —
(i)who is accredited as a diplomatic or consular representative of the government of any foreign territory, or is a staff member of any such diplomatic or consular representative;
(ii)who holds a valid diplomatic passport, official passport, service passport or public affairs passport issued by the government of that foreign territory; and
(iii)who is the subject of a request by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore to be treated as an exempt passenger;
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(i)any head of state or head of government of a foreign territory who is recognised by Singapore (whether or not a guest of the Government) whom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore requests to be treated as an exempt passenger;
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(j)any person whom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore recognises as a representative of an international organisation (whether or not a guest of the Government) and whom that Ministry requests to be treated as an exempt passenger;
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(k)every member of the delegation travelling with a person referred to in sub-paragraph (h), (i) or (j);
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(l)any employee or volunteer of an association, authority, body or institution (whether incorporated or unincorporated) lawfully established for charitable objects travelling to any place outside Singapore —
(i)to combat the effects of any emergency at that place;
(ii)to provide emergency medical or other assistance for casualties or survivors in that place;
(iii)to reduce further damage in that place; or
(iv)to support emergency affected communities in the reconstruction and restoration of the physical infrastructure, the environment and community, psychosocial and economic well-being; and
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(m)any employee or volunteer of an association, authority, body or institution (whether incorporated or unincorporated) lawfully established for charitable objects accompanying any beneficiary thereof, and that beneficiary, travelling on a flight originating from and ending in Singapore without landing in any place outside Singapore.
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