Singapore legislation
Section 3
Section 3
Control of importation, exportation, etc.
(1)
The Minister may by order provide —
for the prohibition, absolutely or conditionally, or for the regulation, in all cases or in any specified case or class of case and subject to such exceptions, if any, as may be made by the order, of the import or export or of the carriage coastwise or of the shipment as ships’ stores or of the transhipment of all goods or of goods of any specified class or description;
for the imposition and recovery in connection with any scheme of control for which provision is made by any order under this section of such fees and charges as may be specified and for the disposal thereof;
that any contravention of any provision of any order shall be an offence and shall on conviction be punishable by fine or imprisonment or by both:Provided that —
no such fine shall, in respect of a first offence, exceed the sum of $10,000 or 3 times the value of the goods in respect of which the offence was committed whichever may be the greater, or in respect of a second or subsequent offence of the same or a similar kind, exceed the sum of $20,000 or 4 times the value of the goods whichever may be the greater; and
no such penalty of imprisonment shall, in respect of a first offence, exceed a term of 12 months or, in respect of a second or subsequent offence of the same or a similar kind, exceed a term of 2 years.
(2)
All orders made under this section shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication and if a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of Parliament next after the expiry of one month from the date when the orders are so presented annulling the orders or any part thereof as from a specified date, the orders or such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon become void as from that date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new orders.[4** Section 3 in the 1970 Edition was repealed by Act 29 of 1982.