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246 :(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—