BIOLOGICAL AGENTS AND TOXINS
25
- (i) undergo such medical examination and medical treatment at such place or hospital as the Director may specify in the order; or
- (ii) be quarantined at such place and for such period as the Director may specify in the order.
(6) Any person who contravenes any order made by the Director under subsection (5) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.
(7) This section shall not apply to—
- (a) any person who has been engaged to transport any Second Schedule biological agent within Singapore and whose possession of the Second 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 Second Schedule biological agent within Singapore pending —
- (i) the delivery of the Second Schedule biological agent to the person who has procured its import into Singapore; or
- (ii) the exportation of the Second Schedule biological agent from Singapore in the course of transhipment,
- and whose possession of the Second Schedule biological agent is merely incidental to his storing it in accordance with such engagement.
Prohibition against large-scale production of Second Schedule biological agents
16.—(1) No person shall carry out or procure any large-scale production of any Second Schedule biological agent.
(2) Where any person produces any Second Schedule biological agent at any facility in contravention of subsection (1)—
- (a) he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both; and
