Clause 71

Without limiting section 32 of the Cross‑Border Railways (Border Control Co‑location) Act 2026, a police officer or special police officer who is a Singapore incident management officer carrying out in peninsular Malaysia incident management operations relating to a cross‑border incident, may exercise the powers conferred on a police officer under any written law, using only force that is reasonable in the circumstances and subject to the following modifications:

any reference to seizing or forfeiting any thing or detaining any person under any written law is a reference to transferring custody of the thing seized or person detained to a Malaysian incident management officer if Malaysia is responsible for managing the cross‑border incident under a treaty;

those incident management operations are carried out only —

during or immediately after the cross‑border incident happening;

within the cross‑border incident site for that cross‑border incident; and

with the prior consent of the Government of Malaysia for the specific cross‑border incident unless the cross‑border incident —

is an explosion or a fire;

involved the release into the environment or exposing the public to any toxic chemical, any dangerous, hazardous, radioactive or harmful substance, or any biological agent, or toxin; or

requires search and rescue services or critical medical assistance or medical evacuation to be provided.(2) However, no police officer or special police officer who is a Singapore incident management officer may make an arrest when carrying on in peninsular Malaysia any incident management operations relating to a cross‑border incident.(3) In this section —“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;“cross‑border incident site”, for a cross‑border incident, means the premises mentioned in section 29 of the Cross‑Border Railways (Border Control Co‑location) Act 2026 associated with the cross‑border incident;“cross‑border railway” means a railway that —

has a railway network with a terminus in Singapore and runs to any part of peninsular Malaysia; and

is constructed under the Cross‑Border Railways Act 2018;“cross‑border train” means a train used for or in connection with providing a cross‑border train service;“cross‑border train service” means a passenger train service provided using a cross‑border railway;“Malaysian incident management officer” and “Singapore incident management officer” have the meanings given by section 27 of the Cross‑Border Railways (Border Control Co‑location) Act 2026;“treaty” has the meaning given by section 3(1) of the Cross‑Border Railways (Border Control Co‑location) Act 2026.”.