1. This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Exemption from section 6) Order.
2. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires —
“air service” means a service comprising the carriage of passengers or cargo for hire by means of an aircraft;
“airline crew member” means a person who is employed as a flight crew member by an international air carrier or other air service;
“permanent resident” means a person who is not subject to any restriction under the
Act as to his period of residence in Singapore.
Exemption from section 6(1) of Act
3.
—(1) The following classes of persons are exempt from
section 6(1) of the Act:
(a)
the classes of persons specified in
the First Schedule, and their spouses and dependent children, not being permanent residents; and
(2) The exemption conferred by this paragraph shall be subject to regulation 39 of the Immigration Regulations (Rg 1).
Exemption from section 6(2) of Act
5. The burden of proof that any person is a person to whom this Order applies shall lie upon that person.
6. Nothing in this Order shall be construed to exempt any person from examination under section 24, 25, 25A or 26 of the
Act, as the case may be.
FIRST SCHEDULE
1. Members of such visiting force as the Minister may determine.
2. Persons duly accredited as diplomatic or consular representatives to Singapore and any staff of such diplomatic or consular representatives who in the opinion of the Minister should be exempted from
section 6(1) and
(2) of the Act.
SECOND SCHEDULE
1. Any member of the Singapore Armed Forces travelling on duty.
2. Any non-citizen (but not a permanent resident) airline crew member of an international air carrier or other air service who, in the course of a journey on duty from a place outside Singapore to Singapore, or from a place outside Singapore to a place outside Singapore —
(a)
travels to Singapore in the course of his employment as a flight crew member on an aircraft of that international air carrier or other air service;
(b)
is expected to leave Singapore in the course of his employment as a member of the flight crew of, or as a passenger on, such an aircraft within 30 days after arriving in Singapore; and
(c)
enters Singapore at an authorised airport.
3. Any head of state of a foreign territory who is a guest of the Government.
THIRD SCHEDULE
1. Any head of state of a foreign territory who is a guest of the Government.
2. Any non-citizen (but not a permanent resident) airline crew member of an international air carrier or other air service referred to in item 2 of
the Second Schedule who leaves Singapore from an authorised airport as a member of the flight crew of, or as a passenger on, an aircraft of an international air carrier or other air service within 30 days after arriving in Singapore.
3. A non-citizen leaving Singapore from an authorised departing place or authorised point of departure, which has available an automated identification processing system for the immigration clearance of persons registered in the system, and the non-citizen can obtain his immigration clearance by using the system (such as by providing a personal identifier of his as evidence of his identity).
[G.N. Nos. S 648/2005; S443/2008]
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Immigration (Exemption from Section 6) Order
(CHAPTER 133, O 1)
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1972 Revised Edition—Immigration (Exemption) Order
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G. N. No. S 250/1972—Immigration (Exemption from Section 6) Order 1972
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