- (b) for a period not exceeding 6 years for Singapore ordinary passports issued on or after 1st April 2005.
(2) Unless earlier cancelled, every Singapore diplomatic passport or Singapore official passport shall be valid for such period as may be specified therein.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may, in any particular case, if satisfied that good reasons exist and that it would be in the interests of the proper administration of this Act to do so, direct that any Singapore ordinary passport shall be issued for a period shorter than that stated in that subsection.
(4) The Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, increase the validity period specified in subsection (1)(b) for all Singapore ordinary passports issued on or after such date as is specified in the notification.
Extension of non-biometric Singapore passport
9.—(1) Singapore passports that are biometric passports shall not be extended.
(2) The Controller may, on the application of the holder of a Singapore passport that is not a biometric passport, extend that passport, but so that the original period for which that Singapore passport was issued plus the extension period does not exceed—
- (a) 11 years in total for Singapore ordinary passports issued before 1st April 2005; or
- (b) 6 years in total for Singapore ordinary passports issued on or after 1st April 2005 but before 15th August 2006.
(3) A Singapore passport that is not a biometric passport may be extended under this section subject to—
- (a) such conditions as may be prescribed for that class of Singapore passport; and
- (b) such other conditions as the Controller may specify in any particular case.
(4) The Controller may, before extending a Singapore passport that is not a biometric passport, require the holder thereof to furnish to the Controller a monetary deposit or such other security (by bond or otherwise) as the Controller may think sufficient to secure the
