Exemption
13.—(1)  The requirements under sections 5 and 6 shall not apply to —
(a)any act authorised by or carried out for or on behalf of the Government;
(b)the following acts carried out by a military, naval or air force of a foreign government (not being a visiting force) in the course of duty:
(i)the export, transhipment or bringing in transit of any goods or document that is brought into Singapore by that force; or
(ii)the transmission of any technology that is brought into Singapore or received by that force from its government;
(c)the export, transhipment, bringing in transit or transmission of any goods, document or technology by or on behalf of a visiting force in the course of duty; or
(d)diplomatic correspondence.
(2)  In this regulation, “visiting force” means any body, contingent or detachment of the military, naval or air force of a country —
(a)with whom the Government has entered into an agreement regarding the status of that country’s forces in Singapore; and
(b)that is specified in the Second Schedule.