Singapore legislation

Clause 34

of Cross-Border Railways (Border Control Co-location) Bill

Clause 34

Preconditions for section 33 order

The Minister must not make an order under section 33(1) ordering any Singapore border protection service officer to proceed to peninsular Malaysia as a Singapore incident management officer unless the Minister is satisfied that adequate provisions have been or will immediately be made by or under Malaysian law for the proper conduct by Singapore incident management officers of incident management operations in peninsular Malaysia in relation to a railway occurrence that is a cross‑border incident, which must include provision that all Singapore incident management officers conducting incident management operations in peninsular Malaysia in relation to a railway occurrence that is a cross‑border incident —

(a)

remain under the orders of their own commanding officers; and

(b)

are conferred with the powers, duties and privileges of officers of the equivalent Malaysian border protection service and equivalent Malaysian incident management officers in Malaysia.