Immigration (Exemption from Singapore Visa — IEA Regional Cooperation Centre) Order 2025

No. S 8

Immigration Act 1959

Immigration
(Exemption from Singapore Visa —
IEA Regional Cooperation Centre)
Order 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 56 of the Immigration Act 1959, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Immigration (Exemption from Singapore Visa — IEA Regional Cooperation Centre) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 6 January 2025.

Definitions

2.  In this Order —

“Centre” means the IEA Regional Cooperation Centre in Singapore;

“IEA” means the autonomous body known as the International Energy Agency that was established in November 1974 within the framework of the OECD to implement an international energy programme;

“OECD” means the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development reconstituted under the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development signed in Paris on 14 December 1960, acting on behalf of the IEA in relation to the Centre and the activities of the IEA or the Centre in Singapore.

Exemption from section 9B of Act

3.—(1)  Subject to sub‑paragraph (2), the Secretary‑General of the OECD and the Executive Director of the IEA are exempt from section 9B(1) of the Act.

(2)  The exemption from section 9B(1) of the Act conferred by sub‑paragraph (1) does not apply to the Secretary‑General of the OECD or the Executive Director of the IEA if, in any particular case, the exemption is waived by the OECD.

(3)  The exemption under sub‑paragraph (1) does not affect the exemptions under the Immigration (Exemption from Singapore Visa) Order (O 4).

Made on 2 January 2025.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary
(Home Affairs Development),
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[AG/LEGIS/SL/133/2020/6]