Regulation 3

No container which has any goods therein and is imported or intended for transhipment shall be removed from the ship wherein they arrived or from the Woodlands Train Checkpoint if imported by train, or beyond the customs station at Woodlands or Tuas if imported by road, except under a permit issued by the proper officer of customs and in accordance with all the conditions specified in the permit.

Notwithstanding paragraph (1), no permit shall be required for the removal by a licensed FTZ operator administering a free trade zone of any container from a vessel direct into such free trade zone, if a full and correct inward manifest required under section 39 of the Act has been furnished to the proper officer of customs.