Section 19

The Government of Malaysia or the Government of the Republic of Singapore may exercise its criminal jurisdiction in relation to an act or omission constituting an offence under the written laws of Malaysia or the Republic of Singapore if the act or omission is committed in the following areas:

Where an act or omission constituting an offence under the written laws of Malaysia or the Republic of Singapore is committed in the area referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and the

Governments may exercise their criminal jurisdiction in relation to the offence, the Government in whose territory the train journey is completed shall have the primary right to exercise its criminal jurisdiction.

Where an act or omission constituting an offence under the written laws of Malaysia or the Republic of Singapore involves a cross-border incident and is committed in the areas referred to in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c) and the Governments may exercise their criminal jurisdiction in relation to the offence, the Government responsible for managing the cross-border incident which has arisen from the offence shall have the primary right to exercise its criminal jurisdiction in relation to the offence.

Where any of the Governments having the primary right to exercise its criminal jurisdiction referred to in subsections (2)

and (3) decides not to exercise such right, the Government making that decision shall inform its decision to the other Government without undue delay and the other Government may exercise its criminal jurisdiction in relation to the offence.

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Where the other Government decides not to exercise its criminal jurisdiction under subsection (4), the Government having the primary right to exercise its criminal jurisdiction shall be obliged to exercise its criminal jurisdiction in accordance with its written laws.

Criminal jurisdiction in respect of offence committed in designated area at Woodlands North Station