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Examination of persons arriving at authorised airport

Immigration Act 1959

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—(1) Every person arriving by air at any authorised airport in Singapore, whether or not the person enters Singapore, must appear before an immigration officer at such time and place as that officer may direct. (2) The immigration officer, after such examination as he or she may consider necessary, must inform any person whom the immigration officer considers to be prohibited from entering Singapore under the provisions of this Act or any regulations or orders made under this Act of his or her finding, and the person must not leave the precincts of the airport except for a place approved by that officer, and must leave and depart from Singapore by the first available means in accordance with the instructions of that officer. (3) The captain, owner, agent or charterer of the aircraft in which the person arrived must, if so required by the immigration officer, remove the person from Singapore by the same or such other aircraft, to the person’s place of embarkation, the country of the person’s birth or citizenship or such other destination, as that immigration officer may direct. (4) Any person who —(a)refuses or neglects to appear before an immigration officer as required by subsection (1) or who leaves the place of examination without or otherwise than in accordance with the authorisation of that officer;(b)after being informed by an immigration officer that he or she is prohibited from entering Singapore, leaves the precincts of an airport without the permission of that officer, or refuses or neglects to proceed to or remain at a place approved by that officer;(c)refuses or fails to leave Singapore in accordance with the instructions of an immigration officer given under subsection (2); or(d)being the captain, owner, agent or charterer of the aircraft in which any person arrived in Singapore, refuses or neglects to remove the person from Singapore in accordance with subsection (3) after being informed by an immigration officer that the person is prohibited from entering Singapore or that the person has refused or neglected to appear before an immigration officer as required by subsection (1) or that the person has left the place of examination without, or otherwise than in accordance with, the authorisation of that officer,shall each be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $4,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both. (5) Where any person leaves the precincts of an airport in contravention of this section or refuses to leave and depart from Singapore in accordance with the instructions of an immigration officer given under subsection (2), the immigration officer or any police officer may take such steps, including the use of force, as may be reasonably necessary to compel that person to return to the precincts of the airport or to comply with those instructions, as the case may be.

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