Singapore legislation
Section 4
Section 4
Deposit and approval of plans, sections, etc.
(1)
After any railway has been provisionally approved under section 3, the Government or the railway company, as the case may be, shall deposit for public inspection in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Singapore —
plans and sections upon a scale of at least 1:3168, showing the lines and levels of such part of the proposed railway and the limits of deviation —
if any alteration is intended in the water level of any canal, or in the level or rate of inclination of any public carriage road or railway which will be crossed by the railway, then the same shall be stated on the section, and each alteration shall be numbered, and cross‑sections in reference to the numbers on a horizontal scale of not less than 1:2400, and on a vertical scale of not less than 1:240, shall be added, which shall show the present surface of such road, canal or railway and the intended surface thereof, when altered; and the greatest of the present and intended rates of inclination of the portion of such road or railway intended to be altered shall also be marked in figures thereon, and where any public carriage road is crossed on the level a cross-section of that road shall also be added, and all such cross-sections shall extend for 183 metres on each side of the centre line of the railway;
wherever the line of the railway is intended to cross any public carriage road, navigable river, canal or railway, the height of the railway over or depth under the surface thereof and the height and span of every arch of all bridges and viaducts by which the railway will be carried over the same shall be marked in figures at every crossing thereof, and where the railway will be carried across any such public carriage road or railway on the level thereof, such crossing shall be so described on the section, and it shall also be stated if such level will be unaltered;
if it is intended to divert, widen or narrow any public carriage road, navigable river, canal or railway, the course of the diversion and the extent of the widening or narrowing shall be marked on the plan;
if it is intended to lay any part of the railway along a road or street, the plan shall show at what distance from an imaginary line drawn along the centre of that road or street it is proposed to lay the rails, and the widths of that road or street shall at all material points be clearly marked in figures on the plan;
a book of reference containing the names of the owners and lessees or reputed owners and lessees of the lands required or which may be taken for the purposes of this Act in respect of such part.
(2)
Notice shall be given of the deposit of such plans and books of reference by advertisement in the Gazette and in not less than 2 local newspapers, calling on all persons having any objection to the plans and books of reference to send in a statement of their objection in writing to a Collector of Land Revenue within 3 months from the date of the notice.
(3)
Such notice shall be published in at least 3 successive issues of the Gazette and of the local newspapers.
(4)
At the expiration of the period of 3 months the plans and sections referred to in subsection (1) shall be presented to Parliament, together with the objections thereto, and shall be considered and approved or amended by Parliament in Committee.
(5)
The plans and sections, if approved or amended by Parliament, shall be deemed to be the deposited plans referred to in this Act.