Immigration Act 1959 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5B · Co-Located Border Control for Cross-Border Railways
36H. When person travelling on pre-cleared train journey enters Singapore
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To be clear, if a person is travelling to Singapore from a place outside Singapore on a pre-cleared train journey, he or she is to be treated as entering Singapore for the purposes of this Act when all the following are satisfied:
the person arrives at an authorised point of entry outside Singapore at which pre-clearance procedures are carried out by Singapore preclearance officers;
the person is with a Singapore preclearance officer or at an automated clearance system for immigration clearance and complies with pre-clearance procedures at the authorised point of entry outside Singapore;
the person —
is not refused entry into Singapore by a Singapore preclearance officer at that authorised point of entry outside Singapore; and
entry
“entry” means —(a)in the case of a person arriving by sea, disembarking in Singapore from the vessel in which he or she arrives;(b)in the case of a person arriving by air at an authorised airport, leaving the precincts of such airport;(c)in the case of a person entering by land and proceeding to an immigration control post under section 26 or an authorised train checkpoint under section 25A, leaving the precincts of such post or checkpoint for any purpose other than that of departing from Singapore by an approved route;(ca)in the case of a child born in Singapore on or after 15 January 2005 who is not a citizen of Singapore, his or her birth in Singapore; and(d)in any other case, any entry into Singapore by land, sea or air,but shall not include in any case an entry made for the purpose of complying with this Act or an entry, expressly or impliedly, sanctioned by an immigration officer for the purpose of any enquiry or detention under the provisions of this Act;
is not the subject of a no-boarding directive issued under section 9AA;
the person did not disembark anywhere else after he or she left that authorised point of entry outside Singapore and before arriving at an authorised train checkpoint in Singapore;
the person arrives in Singapore at the authorised train checkpoint in Singapore and leaves the precincts of the authorised train checkpoint otherwise than —
departing from Singapore by an approved route; or
under detention.