Clause 27

The appropriate Minister may, by order in the Gazette, specify all or any of the following in respect of any infectious disease:

any pre‑departure health requirement (including a specified pre‑departure test or a declaration as to the status of a person’s health) that a person must comply with, whether that person is entering or in transit through Singapore;

any time within which any pre‑departure health requirement mentioned in paragraph (a) must be carried out;

any health requirement that a person must comply with while on board a vehicle or vessel on an international voyage to Singapore (called in this section an onboard health requirement);

the classes of persons to whom the pre‑departure health requirement mentioned in paragraph (a) or the onboard health requirement mentioned in paragraph (c) apply.(2) Any person on an international voyage arriving in Singapore by land, air or sea (whether entering or in transit through Singapore) must —

comply with any pre‑departure health requirement under subsection (1)(a) within the time mentioned in subsection (1)(b), or any onboard health requirement under subsection (1)(c) applicable to the person; and

upon the request of a Health Officer (when arriving by land) or a Port Health Officer (when arriving by air or sea) —

produce proof of a prescribed type showing that any pre‑departure health requirement under subsection (1)(a) applicable to the person has been complied with; or

where the pre‑departure health requirement is a specified pre‑departure test and no such type of proof is prescribed, produce a medical report or laboratory report from the person’s place of origin or embarkation stating the results of the relevant pre‑departure test.(3) Any person on an international voyage who arrives in Singapore by land, air or sea (whether entering or in transit through Singapore) and who, without reasonable excuse —

has failed to comply with any pre‑departure health requirement under subsection (1)(a) applicable to the person;

has failed to comply with any onboard health requirement under subsection (1)(c) applicable to the person during the international voyage; or

fails to comply with subsection (2),shall be guilty of an offence. (4) A Health Officer or Port Health Officer may return any person, not being a citizen of Singapore, who arrives in Singapore in contravention of subsection (3), to the person’s place of origin or embarkation at the person’s own expense or the expense of the owner or agent of the vessel by which the person arrived in Singapore.”.