Clause 2

by inserting, immediately before the definitions of “ “authorised airport”, “authorised landing place”, “authorised train checkpoint”, “authorised point of entry”, “authorised departing place” and “authorised point of departure” ”, the following definitions:“ “advance passenger information” means information relating to any passenger required to be furnished to the Controller prior to the arrival in Singapore of the vessel, aircraft or train, as the case may be, on which the passenger will be travelling to Singapore;“arrive” means —

in relation to an aircraft, the aircraft coming to a stop after landing;

in relation to a vessel or ship, the securing of the vessel or ship for any purposes, including for the embarkation or disembarkation of its passengers or the loading or unloading of its cargo or stores or both; or

in relation to a train, the train coming to a stop at a train checkpoint;”;

by inserting, immediately after the definitions of “ “authorised airport”, “authorised landing place”, “authorised train checkpoint”, “authorised point of entry”, “authorised departing place” and “authorised point of departure” ”, the following definition:“ “authorised area” means an authorised airport, authorised landing place, authorised train checkpoint, authorised point of entry, authorised place of embarkation, authorised departing place, authorised point of departure or immigration control post declared as such under section 5;”;

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Director of Marine”, the following definitions:“ “document” includes —

any endorsement;

any paper or other material where there is writing;

any paper or other material on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations that are —

capable of being given a meaning by persons qualified to interpret them; or

capable of being responded to by a computer, a machine or an electronic device;

any article or material from which information is capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of any other article or device; or

any electronic record;“electronic record” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 88);”;

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b) of the definition of “leave”;

by inserting, at the end of paragraph (c) of the definition of “leave”, the word “and”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:“(d)in the case of a vessel, an aircraft or a train leaving Singapore by sea, air or land, as the case may be, departing from any authorised departing place in Singapore by sea, or from any airport or train checkpoint in Singapore, for any place outside Singapore;”; and

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsection:“(2) For the purposes of sections 8(6), 10(5), 11(6), 14(6), 29(7) or 33, any reference to the Minister shall include a reference to any of the following who is authorised by the Minister for the purposes of hearing an appeal under that provision:

the Minister who has been designated by the Prime Minister as Second Minister for Home Affairs (if any);

any Minister of State,and any reference in section 39A to the Minister shall include a reference to a person so authorised by the Minister under this subsection.”.