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Rh PART IV POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT Demand for surrender of suspicious Singapore passports, etc.

29.—(1) An authorised officer or a police officer may demand that a person surrender a document to the officer if—
 * (a) the document is a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document that has been obtained, or that the authorised officer or police officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been obtained, by means of a false or misleading statement, any false or misleading information or a false or misleading document;
 * (b) the document is a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document, or other document that has been used or that the authorised officer or police officer suspects on reasonable grounds has been used, in the commission of any offence under this Act; or
 * (c) the document is—
 * (i) a false Singapore passport or a false Singapore travel document; or
 * (ii) a false foreign travel document.

(2) Any person having possession or control of any document that an authorised officer or a police officer demands to be surrendered to the officer under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both if the person fails to immediately comply with the demand of the authorised officer or police officer made under that subsection.

Demand for surrender of cancelled Singapore passports, etc.

30.—(1) An authorised officer may demand that a person surrender a Singapore passport or a Singapore travel document to the authorised officer if—
 * (a) the document has been cancelled under section 21 or 22; or
 * (b) the document has otherwise ceased to be valid.