Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of Immigration (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

Amendment of section 2

Section 2 of the Immigration Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definitions of “authorised airport”, “authorised landing place”, “authorised point of entry”, “authorised departing place” and “authorised point of departure” and substituting the following definitions:“ “authorised airport”, “authorised landing place”, “authorised train checkpoint”, “authorised point of entry”, “authorised departing place” and “authorised point of departure” mean, respectively, an airport, a landing place, a train checkpoint, a point of entry, a departing place or a point of departure declared as such under section 5;”;

(b)

by deleting the definition of “crew” and substituting the following definition:“ “crew” includes every seaman on a vessel, and every person employed in the operation of an aircraft or a train or in any service rendered to the crew or passengers of an aircraft in flight or a train in motion;”;

(c)

by deleting paragraph (c) of the definition of “entry” and substituting the following paragraph:“(c)in the case of a person entering by land and proceeding to an immigration control under section 26 or an authorised train checkpoint under section 25A, leaving the precincts of such post or authorised train checkpoint for any purpose other than that of departing from Singapore by an approved route; and”;

(d)

by deleting the definition of “master” and substituting the following definition:“ “master” —

(a)

in relation to a vessel, means any person (except a pilot or harbour master) having for the time being control or charge thereof;

(b)

in relation to an aircraft, means the captain thereof; and

(c)

in relation to a train, means the driver of the train or any person having for the time being control or charge thereof;”; and

(e)

by deleting the words “vessel or aircraft” wherever they appear in the definitions of “passenger”, “stowaway” and “through passenger” and substituting in each case the words “vessel, aircraft or train”.