Singapore Tourism Board (Characteristics of Cruise Ships) Notification 2025

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No. S 93
Singapore Tourism Board Act 1963
Singapore Tourism Board
(Characteristics of Cruise Ships)
Notification 2025
In exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs (c) and (e) of the definition of “cruise ship” in section 2 of the Singapore Tourism Board Act 1963, the Minister for Trade and Industry makes the following Notification:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Notification is the Singapore Tourism Board (Characteristics of Cruise Ships) Notification 2025 and comes into operation on 5 February 2025.
Other characteristics of cruise ships
2.  The other characteristics prescribed for the purpose of paragraph (c) of the definition of “cruise ship” in section 2 of the Act, are specified in the Schedule.
THE SCHEDULE
Paragraph 2
Other characteristics of cruise ships
1.—(1)  The ship provides voyages that meet all of the following requirements:
(a)the voyages are for leisure travel for any person against payment;
(b)any part of each voyage is on the high seas;
(c)the voyages are undertaken on a regular basis on any particular route or routes, in accordance with timetables and sailing dates advertised in advance and made available by the cruise line of the ship;
(d)as at 1 January of a year, 70% or more of the planned voyages for that year are for at least 24 hours in length.
(2)  For the purpose of sub‑paragraph (1)(d) —
(a)the percentage of planned voyages of a ship in a year is to be determined based on its planned voyages that are to commence in that year (including any that is to conclude in another year); and
(b)the length of any voyage that is to commence in that year but is to conclude in another year, is the entire length of the voyage from the time of commencement until the time of conclusion.
Made on 15 January 2025.
BEH SWAN GIN
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Trade and Industry,
Singapore.
[MTI 119-01-0003; AG/LEGIS/SL/305B/2020/2]

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