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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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Last amended by an amending law of 2026.

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:

(a)

the person arrives at an authorised point of entry outside Singapore at which pre-clearance procedures are carried out by Singapore preclearance officers;

(b)

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;

(c)

the person —

(i)

is not refused entry into Singapore by a Singapore preclearance officer at that authorised point of entry outside Singapore; and

(ii)

is not the subject of a no-boarding directive issued under section 9AA;

(d)

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;

(e)

the person arrives in Singapore at the authorised train checkpoint in Singapore and leaves the precincts of the authorised train checkpoint otherwise than —

(i)

departing from Singapore by an approved route; or

(ii)

under detention.

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