Section 17

The Controller may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any place within the limits of any port to be an immigration anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class specified in the notification.

The master of every vessel which arrives at or is about to leave a port where an immigration anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class to which that vessel belongs, has been declared must, subject to any directions given under subsection (4), immediately navigate the vessel to that anchorage and must remain there until an immigration officer gives him or her permission to leave.

The master of every vessel which arrives in or is about to leave Singapore must, if ordered to do so by a police officer or an immigration officer, stop, anchor or tie up the vessel at such place as may be ordered, and must remain there until a police officer or an immigration officer gives him or her permission to leave.

The master of a vessel who contravenes or, without reasonable cause, fails to comply with this section or any order made or directions given thereunder shall be guilty of an offence.