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INTERNATIONALLY PROTECTED PERSONS
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(c) a representative or an official of a State or an official or agent of an international organisation of an intergovernmental character who, at the time and place of the alleged offence, is entitled under international law to special protection from any attack on his person, freedom or dignity; or
(d) a member of the family of a person referred to in paragraph (c) who forms part of the person’s household.

(2) The Minister may give a written certificate stating any matter relevant to the question whether a person is, or was at any time or in respect of any period, an internationally protected person, and such certificate is admissible in any proceedings as prima facie evidence of the matters stated in the certificate.

Offences against persons

4.—(1) Any person who commits outside Singapore any act—

(a) to or in relation to a person whom he knows to be an internationally protected person; and
(b) which, if committed in Singapore, would have constituted an offence specified in the First Schedule,

shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable on conviction to the same punishment to which he would have been liable had he been convicted of that offence.

(2) That person may be dealt with as if the offence had been committed in Singapore.

Offences against premises or vehicles

5.—(1) Any person who commits outside Singapore any act—

(a) to or in relation to—
(i) premises which he knows to be relevant premises; or
(ii) a vehicle which he knows is used by an internationally protected person;
(b) which is likely to endanger the person or liberty of the internationally protected person; and
(c) which, if committed in Singapore, would have constituted an offence specified in the Second Schedule,