Passports Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Refusing or Cancelling Singapore Passports and Travel Documents
19. When Singapore passport may be refused
Feedback & supportThe Controller may, by written notice, refuse a Singapore passport to any citizen of Singapore.
Controller
“Controller” means the Controller of Immigration appointed under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1959;
Without affecting subsection (1), the Controller may, by written notice, refuse a Singapore passport to any citizen of Singapore if —
Singapore passport
“Singapore passport” means —(a)a Singapore ordinary passport;(b)a Singapore diplomatic passport; or(c)a Singapore official passport,issued by or on behalf of the Government under this Act;
the citizen of Singapore is the holder of another Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document that is still valid at the time when the Singapore passport applied for is to be issued;
a competent authority makes a request under section 24(1) to the Controller to refuse the Singapore passport, and section 24(4) does not apply;
the Controller believes on reasonable grounds that the citizen —
is a person mentioned in section 23(1) or 24(5); or
has, in the 10 years before the application for the Singapore passport is made, been convicted of an offence under this Act or the repealed Act, or of an arrestable offence against any written law that is prescribed; or
the Controller is aware of a circumstance in section 25, 26 or 27 whereby it would be lawful for the Controller to refuse to issue the Singapore passport to the citizen.