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- (ii) be quarantined at such place and for such period as the Director may specify in the order.
(7) Any person who contravenes any order made by the Director under subsection (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to be punished as follows:
- (a) where the order has been made in relation to or in connection with a First Schedule (Part I) biological agent, with a fine not exceeding $10,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both; and
- (b) where the order has been made in relation to or in connection with a First Schedule (Part II) biological agent, with a fine not exceeding $100,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or with both.
(8) This section shall not apply to—
- (a) any person who has been engaged to transport any First Schedule biological agent within Singapore and whose possession of the First Schedule biological agent is merely incidental to his transporting it in accordance with such engagement; or
- (b) any person who has been engaged to store any First Schedule biological agent within Singapore pending—
- (i) the delivery of the First Schedule biological agent to the person who has procured its import into Singapore; or
- (ii) the exportation of the First Schedule biological agent from Singapore in the course of transhipment,
- and whose possession of the First Schedule biological agent is merely incidental to his storing it in accordance with such engagement.
Prohibition against large-scale production of First Schedule biological agents without approval
7.—(1) No person shall carry out or procure any large-scale production of any First Schedule biological agent unless the large-scale production of the First Schedule biological agent—
- (a) is authorised by an approval granted by the Director; and
