Immigration Act 1959 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Procedure on Arrival in and Departure from Singapore
17. Vessel to stop, proceed to immigration or departure anchorage or other place when ordered
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The Controller may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any place within the limits of any port to be an immigration anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class specified in the notification.
Controller
“Controller” means the Controller of Immigration appointed under section 3;
The master of every vessel which arrives at or is about to leave a port where an immigration anchorage, either for vessels generally or for vessels of a class to which that vessel belongs, has been declared must, subject to any directions given under subsection (4), immediately navigate the vessel to that anchorage and must remain there until an immigration officer gives him or her permission to leave.
vessel
“vessel” includes any ship or boat or other description of floating craft used in navigation, and includes any tackle, equipment, book, document, goods, cargo or things carried therein or thereon.
The master of every vessel which arrives in or is about to leave Singapore must, if ordered to do so by a police officer or an immigration officer, stop, anchor or tie up the vessel at such place as may be ordered, and must remain there until a police officer or an immigration officer gives him or her permission to leave.
leave
“leave” means —(a)in the case of a person leaving Singapore by sea, embarking in Singapore on a vessel which is about to leave Singapore and remaining on board such vessel at the time of its departure for any place outside Singapore;(b)in the case of a person leaving Singapore by air, boarding an aircraft in Singapore which is about to depart from Singapore; (c)in the case of a person leaving Singapore by land, boarding and remaining in a train or other vehicle which is about to leave Singapore; and (d)in the case of a vessel, an aircraft or a train leaving Singapore by sea, air or land (as the case may be), departing from any authorised departing place in Singapore by sea, or from any airport or train checkpoint in Singapore, for any place outside Singapore;
The master of a vessel who contravenes or, without reasonable cause, fails to comply with this section or any order made or directions given thereunder shall be guilty of an offence.