Singapore legislation

Clause 9

of Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill

Clause 9

Amendment of section 69

In the principal Act, in section 69 —

(a)

after subsection (3), insert —“(3A) Despite subsection (1), an immigration officer may, if the immigration officer considers it necessary to do so for the prevention or detection of an offence under section 67 or 68, require any person within or in the vicinity of an authorised checkpoint to provide a specimen of his or her breath for a preliminary breath test.”;

(b)

in subsection (5), after “A police officer”, insert “or an immigration officer”;

(c)

in subsection (5)(a), (b) and (c), after “the police officer”, insert “or immigration officer”; and

(d)

after subsection (6), insert —“(7) In this section —“authorised checkpoint” means any authorised landing place, authorised point of entry, authorised departing place or authorised point of departure declared under section 5 of the Immigration Act 1959;“immigration officer” means any person appointed under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1959.”.