Singapore legislation

Clause 51

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

Clause 51

Amendment of section 24

In the Coroners Act 2010, in section 24 —

(a)

in subsection (1)(c), delete “or” at the end;

(b)

in subsection (1)(d), replace the full‑stop at the end with a semi‑colon;

(c)

in subsection (1), after paragraph (d), insert —“(e)the death occurred (even if outside Singapore) on board, or as a result of an occurrence on board, a cross‑border train when the person, at the time of death, was on a journey to or from somewhere in Singapore, and that cross‑border train enters or returns to Singapore with the body of the deceased; or

(f)

the cause or suspected cause of the death (even if it occurred outside Singapore) is connected with a cross‑border incident and the body of the deceased is sent to Singapore pursuant to incident management operations.”; and

(d)

after subsection (2), insert —“(3) In this section —“cross‑border railway” and “cross‑border train” have the meanings given by section 3(1) of the Cross‑Border Railways (Border Control Co‑location) Act 2026;“cross‑border incident” and “incident management operations” have the meanings given by section 6(2) of the Cross‑Border Railways (Border Control Co‑location) Act 2026.”.