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- (b) any expense of the removal, as certified by a senior customs officer, may be recovered as a fine from that person or the owner of the article.
Search of travellers and baggage
363.—(1) This section applies to a person (called in this section a traveller)—
- (a) who is landing, is about to land, or has recently landed, from any vessel or aircraft;
- (b) who is leaving any vessel or aircraft in Singapore (whether to land or for any other purpose); or
- (c) who is entering or has recently entered Singapore by land, sea or air.
(2) A customs officer (not being a senior customs officer) may demand that—
- (a) the traveller permits his or her person and goods to be searched by the officer for any seizable goods; or
- (b) the traveller—
- (i) goes, together with the traveller’s goods, to a police station or an examination station; and
- (ii) permits his or her person and goods to be searched there, in the presence and under the supervision of a senior customs officer, for seizable goods.
(3) A senior customs officer may demand that—
- (a) the traveller permits his or her person and goods to be searched by the officer for any seizable goods; or
- (b) the traveller permits his or her person and goods to be searched, in the presence and under the supervision of the officer, for any seizable goods.
(4) A woman must not be searched under this section except by a woman and with strict regard to decency.
(5) If a traveller requests to be present when his or her goods are searched, the goods may not be searched unless—
