Passports Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Powers of Enforcement
29. Demand for surrender of suspicious Singapore passports, etc.
Feedback & supportAn authorised officer or a police officer may demand that a person surrender a document to the officer if —
the document is a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document that has been obtained, or that the authorised officer or police officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been obtained, by means of a false or misleading statement, any false or misleading information or a false or misleading document;
the document is a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document, or other document that has been used or that the authorised officer or police officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been used, in the commission of any offence under this Act; or
the document is —
a false Singapore passport or a false Singapore travel document; or
a false foreign travel document.
Any person having possession or control of any document that an authorised officer or a police officer demands to be surrendered to the officer under subsection (1), and who fails to immediately comply with the demand, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
document
“document” includes —(a)any paper or other material where there is writing;(b)any paper or other material on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations that are —(i)capable of being given a meaning by persons qualified to interpret them; or(ii)capable of being responded to by a computer, a machine or an electronic device; or(c)any article or material from which information is capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of any other article or device;