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NO. 33 OF 2007


(ii) fees in respect of endorsements on Singapore passports and Singapore travel documents;
(f) the waiver or refund, in whole or in part, by authorised officers of any such fees in the circumstances of any particular case; and
(g) the prescribing of anything that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Act.

(3) The regulations may—

(a) provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $5,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or with both;
(b) prescribe different fees for different classes of applicants for Singapore passports or Singapore travel documents, and for different classes of Singapore travel documents, and any application fee so prescribed need not bear any relationship to the cost of issuing a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document or endorsing on a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document; and
(c) provide for such transitional, savings and other consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as the Minister considers necessary or expedient.

(4) All regulations made under this section shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.

Repeal

61. The Passports Act (Cap. 220) is repealed.

Consequential and related amendments to Immigration Act

62. The provisions of the Immigration Act (Cap. 133) specified in the first column of the Second Schedule are amended in the manner set out in the second column thereof.

Savings and transitional provisions

63.—(1) Without prejudice to section 16 of the Interpretation Act (Cap. 1), every visa, passport, certificate of identity, document of identity or other travel document issued, granted or made under the repealed Act