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BIOLOGICAL AGENTS AND TOXINS
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(b) the Director may order the holder of the permit, at his own expense, to do any one or more of the following:
(i) take such measures as the Director may specify to ensure that the Fifth Schedule toxin is properly stored;
(ii) destroy the Fifth Schedule toxin;
(iii) decontaminate the place at which the Fifth Schedule toxin was stored in contravention of subsection (1) or (2).

(4) Any holder of a permit to import any Fifth Schedule toxin and any holder of a permit to tranship any Fifth Schedule toxin who contravenes any order made by the Director under subsection (3)(b) 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.

Division 4—Transfer

Prohibition against transfers of Fifth Schedule toxins except by certain persons

35.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall transfer any Fifth Schedule toxin unless—

(a) he has an approval to possess the Fifth Schedule toxin as referred to in section 31; and
(b) the transferee—
(i) has also been granted an approval to possess the Fifth Schedule toxin as referred to in section 31; or
(ii) is outside Singapore.

(2) No person to whom any Fifth Schedule toxin has been provided for any excluded purpose shall transfer the Fifth Schedule toxin to any other person for any purpose other than an excluded purpose unless the transferee—

(a) has been granted an approval to possess the Fifth Schedule toxin as referred to in section 31; or
(b) is outside Singapore.

(3) Any transferor who transfers any Fifth Schedule toxin to any transferee in Singapore, knowing or having reason to believe that such