Singapore legislation

Clause 3

Amendment of section 3

Section 3 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “air navigation” in subsection (1)(c), the words “, including the investigation of any accident or incident arising out of or in the course of air navigation”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (g) of subsection (2), the following paragraphs:“(ga)for authorising any person, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of an investigation, to enter, inspect and examine any place, structure or aircraft;

(gb)for prohibiting, pending an investigation, access to or interference with aircraft to which an accident or incident has occurred, and for authorising any person, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of an investigation, to have access to, examine, remove, take measures for the preservation of, or otherwise deal with any aircraft;”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(3A) Nothing in this section shall limit the powers of any authority to investigate accidents under any written law for the time being in force relating to merchant shipping.”; and

(d)

by deleting the words “$5,000 and imprisonment for a term of one year” in subsection (4) and substituting the words “$100,000 or imprisonment for a term of 5 years or both for any offence thereunder”.

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