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6 (3) In this section, "UN operation" also includes an operation—
 * (a) which is established, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, by an organ of the United Nations;
 * (b) which is conducted under the authority and control of the United Nations; and
 * (c) which is for the purpose of—
 * (i) delivering humanitarian, political or development assistance in peacebuilding; or
 * (ii) delivering emergency humanitarian assistance.

(4) In this section, "UN operation" does not include any operation—
 * (a) which is authorised by the Security Council of the United Nations as an enforcement action under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations;
 * (b) in which UN workers are engaged as combatants against organised armed forces; and
 * (c) to which the law of international armed conflict applies.

(5) If in any proceedings, a question arises as to whether—
 * (a) a person is, or was at any time or in respect of any period, a UN worker; or
 * (b) an operation is or was a UN operation,

a written certificate issued under the hand of the Minister charged with the responsibility for foreign affairs and stating any fact relevant to the question shall be admissible as evidence of that fact until the contrary is proved.

Offences committed against UN workers

4.—(1) Any person who commits outside Singapore any act—
 * (a) to or in relation to a person whom he knows to be a UN worker; and
 * (b) which, if committed in Singapore, would have constituted an offence specified in the First Schedule,