Passports Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Offences Relating to Singapore Passports and Travel Documents
47A. Extended criminal jurisdiction for false foreign travel documents within Singapore designated area
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Any conduct engaged in by a person in a Singapore designated area of a cross-border railway that, if engaged in within Singapore, would constitute an offence under section 47(1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) is to be treated for the purposes of that provision as if the person engaged in that conduct in Singapore.
conduct
“conduct” means an act, an omission to perform an act or a state of affairs;
A person who engages in any conduct mentioned in subsection (1) may be tried and punished for that conduct by a court in Singapore.
To be clear, it does not matter whether the conduct engaged in constitutes an offence under the laws of Malaysia, and this section does not affect sections 39 and 40 of the Cross-Border Railways (Border Control Co-location) Act 2026.
Sections 29, 30 and 31(1) extend to apply to and in relation to any document and any person within a Singapore designated area of a cross-border railway in connection with an offence mentioned in subsection (1), subject to the following modifications:
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;
any reference to an authorised officer, customs officer or police officer is a reference to an authorised officer, customs officer or police officer who is a Singapore preclearance officer;
any reference to demanding the surrender, seizing or taking possession of any document from any person includes a reference to transferring custody of the document surrendered, seized or taken to a Malaysian border protection service officer without delay.
To be clear, section 32 does not apply to or in relation to any person who engaged in any conduct mentioned in subsection (1) until the person is within Singapore.
In this section, “cross-border railway”, “Malaysian border protection service officer”, “Singapore designated area” and “Singapore preclearance officer” have the meanings given by section 3(1) of the Cross-Border Railways (Border Control Co-location) Act 2026.