Section 3

for prohibiting, absolutely or conditionally, or for regulating, in all cases or in any specified case or class of cases and subject to such exceptions as may be made by the regulations, the import or export or the carriage coastwise or the shipment as ships’ stores or the transhipment or transit of all goods or of goods of any specified class or description;

for imposing on such importers, exporters, agents, forwarding agents, common carriers, consignors or consignees of goods or on owners, agents, masters or persons in charge of a conveyance as may be prescribed in the regulations, the duty to furnish —

to the Director-General; or

to the owner, agent, master or person in charge of a conveyance, or to a railway station-master or to such other person as may be prescribed,such particulars, information or documents relating to goods imported into, exported from, transhipped in or in transit through Singapore as may be prescribed;

for permitting the Director-General to authorise, in any manner that may be prescribed, the importation, exportation, transhipment or transit of goods in regard to which the required particulars, information or documents have been furnished;

for prohibiting the importation, exportation, transhipment or transit of goods, or the delivery of goods or of documents relating to those goods, except in compliance with the regulations or with the approval of the Director‑General;

for prohibiting the exportation of all goods or goods of any specified class or description except in compliance with any conditions that may be prescribed for the purpose of complying with any preferential tariff arrangement or agreement between Singapore and a country or territory outside Singapore, including any condition that the goods exported are to be from a prescribed source or that the manufacture of the goods is to be carried out or procured by any person registered under regulations made under this Act;

for requiring the owner or agent of any conveyance to furnish particulars of coal, oil or other fuel or stores placed on board that conveyance in Singapore;

for determining the form and manner in which the required particulars, information and documents must be furnished;

for prescribing the time within which the required particulars, information and documents must be furnished;

for requiring the master of any vessel to attend at an examination station or the office of the Port Master, and to furnish any particulars, information and documents, that may be prescribed;

for prohibiting the issue of a port clearance to the master of any vessel pending compliance with any provision of the regulations;

for the registration of all or any class of goods that may be prescribed, imported into, exported from, transhipped in or in transit through Singapore;

for the registration of importers, exporters, common carriers of goods or any person making a declaration under this Act or any regulations made under this Act;

for the issue of certificates of entitlement to permits for the export or import of any classes of goods, that are prescribed, to successful applicants who submitted bids for the certificates;

for requiring fees and deposits to be paid for the submission of applications for the issue of certificates of entitlement under any regulations made under paragraph (m), and providing for the forfeiture of deposits for non-compliance with any of the conditions governing the submission of such applications;

for prescribing the levy, or the method or manner for determining the amount of the levy, payable for the import or export of different classes of goods or for a certificate of entitlement issued under any regulations made under paragraph (m) and for prescribing the manner or method in which the levy must be paid;

for requiring security to be provided to secure compliance with this Act, any regulations made under this Act or any condition imposed under this Act or its regulations, and to make provision for the form, manner, amount, period and forfeiture of the security;

for prescribing the fees and charges, or the method or manner for determining the amount of the fees or charges, payable by virtue of any regulations made under this section, and for prescribing the manner or method in which the fees or charges must be paid;

for prescribing the fees to be charged for services and facilities provided by the Director‑General;

for the bringing of appeals to the Minister in respect of any matter mentioned in this Act or any regulations made under this Act, and the procedure for those appeals; and

for prescribing anything which is required to be prescribed under this Act or which is necessary or expedient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the provisions of this Act.

in respect of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or 3 times the value of the goods in respect of which the offence was committed, whichever is the greater, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both; and

in respect of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $200,000 or 4 times the value of the goods in respect of which the offence was committed, whichever is the greater, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both.