Singapore legislation

Section 11

of Foreshores Act

Section 11

President may farm right of using beaches, etc.

(1)

The President may rent or farm, either in one or several lots by public sale or by public tender with such limitations and restrictions as to the charges to be made by the renter or farmer, as to the President seems fit, the use of the beaches and banks of the sea.

(2)

Rents agreed to be paid under this section shall be recoverable as Government debts.

(3)

If the right of using the beaches and banks of the sea is granted by the President to farm either for the whole of Singapore or for particular parts or places in Singapore, the farmer shall be entitled to recover payment from the tenant or person using the rights granted to the farmer in a suit by the farmer against that tenant or person for money payable by the defendant to the farmer for the use of the farmer’s rights, describing the extent of the same as agreed on between the parties.

(4)

No such farmer shall recover a larger sum than that specially agreed on between him and the tenant nor a larger sum than that permitted in the grant by the President to be charged by the farmer.