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Licence not needed by transit or transfer passenger or aircraft crew

Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Aviation Industry — Exemption) Order 2025

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—(1) A transit passenger or a transfer passenger arriving, on or after 1 July 2025, at an airport in an aircraft from a place outside Singapore on a scheduled flight of a passenger air service is exempt while in Singapore from —(a)sections 11(1) and 14 of the Act for storing or having possession of, and for importing and exporting any gun, gun part or gun accessory;(b)sections 22(1) and 24(1) of the Act to be authorised by a licence for storing or having possession of, and for importing and exporting, any explosive or explosive precursor; and(c)sections 29(1) and 31 of the Act for having possession of, and for importing and exporting, any weapon or noxious substance,where the gun, gun part, gun accessory, explosive or explosive precursor, weapon or noxious substance (as the case may be) is and remains the checked baggage of the transit passenger or transfer passenger, and is neither a carry‑on article nor carried on the person of the transit passenger or transfer passenger.(2) A member of the crew of an aircraft who arrives, on or after 1 July 2025, at an airport in an aircraft from a place outside Singapore on a scheduled flight of a passenger air service and who leaves Singapore within 24 hours after the arrival in Singapore on an aircraft with the same or different flight number as the firstmentioned aircraft, is exempt while in Singapore from —(a)sections 11(1) and 14 of the Act for storing or having possession of, and for importing and exporting, any gun, gun part or gun accessory;(b)sections 22(1) and 24(1) of the Act for storing or having possession of, and for importing and exporting, any explosive or explosive precursor; and(c)sections 29(1) and 31 of the Act for having possession of, and for importing and exporting, any weapon or noxious substance,where the gun, gun part, gun accessory, explosive or explosive precursor, weapon or noxious substance (as the case may be) is and remains the checked baggage of the crew member, and is neither a carry‑on article nor carried on the person of the crew member.(3) However, the exemption in sub-paragraph (1) or (2) does not extend to any transit passenger, transfer passenger or member of the crew of an aircraft who, after arriving in Singapore at an airport, intentionally leaves the airside of the airport or intentionally enters any landside area of the airport.(4) For the purposes of this paragraph —“air passenger ticket” means a ticket or other record (in electronic form or otherwise) on the basis of which an individual is treated as being entitled to travel as a passenger on a particular flight or flights, regardless of the number of seats on the flight for that passenger;“checked baggage”, for a transit passenger, transfer passenger or a member of the crew of an aircraft who arrives at an airport from a place outside Singapore on a scheduled flight, means any baggage of the transit passenger, transfer passenger or member of the crew (as the case may be) that is checked‑in before the start of the scheduled flight;“passenger air service” means an air service for the carriage of one or more passengers for reward and excludes an air service for the carriage of wholly or mainly mail or cargo;“scheduled flight” means a flight on a scheduled journey within the meaning given by the Air Navigation (Licensing of Air Services) Regulations (Rg 2);“transfer passenger” means a passenger entitled under a single air passenger ticket to depart from Singapore —(a)within 24 hours after the passenger’s scheduled time of arrival by air in Singapore;(b)on an aircraft with a flight number that is different from the flight number of the aircraft in which the passenger arrives in Singapore (called the arriving aircraft); and(c)for an immediate destination that is in a country that is not the country in which the passenger boarded the arriving aircraft,and includes such a passenger who, because of a delay for reasons beyond the passenger’s control or the control of the aircraft operator of the flight concerned, leaves Singapore instead at another time on the departing flight specified in his or her air passenger ticket or on another flight that is provided by the aircraft operator as a replacement of the flight specified on his or her air passenger ticket;“transit passenger” means a passenger entitled under a single air passenger ticket to depart from Singapore —(a)within 24 hours after the passenger’s scheduled time of arrival by air in Singapore;(b)on an aircraft with the same flight number as the aircraft in which the passenger arrives in Singapore (called the arriving aircraft); and(c)for an immediate destination that is in a country that is not the country in which the passenger boarded the arriving aircraft,and includes such a passenger who, because of a delay for reasons beyond the passenger’s control or the control of the aircraft operator of the flight concerned, leaves Singapore instead at another time on the departing flight specified in his or her air passenger ticket or on another flight that is provided by the aircraft operator as a replacement of the flight specified on his or her air passenger ticket.

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