Immigration (Special Entry and Clearance Arrangements) Regulations 2007

No. S 656

Immigration Act

(Chapter 133)

Immigration (Special Entry and Clearance Arrangements) Regulations 2007

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 55 (1) read with section 5A of the Immigration Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration (Special Entry and Clearance Arrangements) Regulations 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2007.

Evidence of identity and Singapore citizenship

1A. For the purposes of section 5A(1)(a) of the Act, the other evidence of identity that must be provided by a citizen of Singapore to an immigration officer, on his arriving in or leaving Singapore, at an authorised airport, authorised landing place, authorised train checkpoint, authorised point of entry, authorised departing place or authorised point of departure, as the case may be, shall be all or any of the following:

(a)	one or more fingerprints or a handprint of the citizen (including those taken using paper and ink or digital livescanning technologies);
(b)	a photograph or other image of the citizen’s face and shoulders;
(c)	the citizen’s signature;
(d)	any other personal identifier of the citizen. [S 206/2008 wef 09/04/2008]

Waiver of passport, etc., production for certain citizens

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 5A(2)(a) of the Act, the requirements of a Singapore passport or Singapore travel document under section 5A(1)(a) of the Act may be waived by an immigration officer in respect of any citizen of Singapore arriving in or leaving Singapore (by air, sea or land) in any of the following circumstances:

(a)	the citizen’s Singapore passport has been lost, stolen or destroyed while outside Singapore;
(b)	an emergency has affected the availability of the information necessary to ascertain whether or not that he is already the holder of a Singapore passport;
(c)	as a member of the Singapore Armed Forces travelling on duty;
(e)	arriving in Singapore at an authorised landing place or authorised point of entry, or 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 citizen can obtain his immigration clearance by using the system (such as by providing a personal identifier of his as evidence of his identity). [S 444/2008 wef 15/09/2008]

(2) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in paragraph (1)(e) shall be taken as exempting any citizen of Singapore referred to therein from having in his possession a valid Singapore passport or Singapore travel document when leaving Singapore (by air, sea or land) to a place outside Singapore, or when arriving in Singapore (by air, sea or land) from a place outside Singapore.

Waiver of passport, etc., production for certain non-citizens

3.—(1) The requirements of a passport or travel document under section 5A (1) ( b) (i) of the Act shall not apply to the following non-citizens arriving in Singapore (by air, sea or land) from a place outside Singapore, or leaving Singapore (by air, sea or land) to a place outside Singapore:

(a)

a member of the Singapore Armed Forces travelling on duty;

(b)

a non-citizen (not being a person whose presence in West Malaysia is unlawful under the provisions of any written law for the time being in force in West Malaysia relating to passports or immigration, or whose entry into Singapore has been prohibited by order made under the Act) who is a member of the Royal Malaysian Police travelling on duty to Singapore on a direct journey from West Malaysia on the request of the Singapore Police Force and who is in possession of a certificate of appointment or an identifying warrant card;

[S 444/2008 wef 15/09/2008]

(c)

a member of such visiting force as the Minister may determine;

(d)

a child or person who —

(i)	is included in the passport or other travel document of a parent of the child, or of a spouse or other relative of the person;
(ii)	is accompanying that parent, spouse or relative (as the case may be) when travelling to and leaving from Singapore; and
(iii)	may be taken under the Immigration Regulations (Rg 1) to be included in any Singapore visa (if any) granted to a parent of the child, or the spouse or relative of that person;

(e)

a non-citizen arriving in Singapore at an authorised landing place or authorised point of entry, or 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);

[S 444/2008 wef 15/09/2008]

(f)

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

[S 444/2008 wef 15/09/2008]

(2) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in paragraph (1)(e) shall be taken as exempting any non-citizen referred to therein from having in his possession a valid passport or travel document when leaving Singapore (by air, sea or land) to a place outside Singapore, or when arriving in Singapore (by air, sea or land) from a place outside Singapore.

Waiver of production of Singapore visa for certain non-citizens

4. The requirement to present evidence of a Singapore visa under section 5A (1)(b)(ii) of the Act shall not apply to any non-citizen arriving in Singapore (by air, sea or land) from a place outside Singapore who —

(a)	is exempt from section 9B(1) of the Act under the Immigration (Exemption from Singapore Visa) Order 2007 (G.N. No. S 658/2007); or
(b)	holds a valid passport from a territory that is approved by the Minister under section 9B(2) of the Act.

Made this 29th day of November 2007.

TAN YONG SOON

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/037; AG/LEG/SL/133/2002/1 Vol. 4]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 55(2) of the Immigration Act).

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