Singapore legislation
Section 14
Section 14
Implied conditions in grants and leases
(1)
Every grant or lease under this Part is also subject, in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, to all the following agreements and conditions in respect of the land comprised in the grant or lease:
that there is reserved to the State a royalty of 10% of the gross produce of all mines and minerals other than laterite found in or upon the land;
that earth, clay, gravel, sand and stone and other materials which may at any time be required for the roads, public buildings or other public purposes of Singapore may be taken and removed by or on behalf of the State from the land (not being the site of a messuage or dwelling house, or of any building attached or adjoining to the messuage or dwelling house, and not being the curtilage, garden or orchard of the messuage or dwelling house or the close in which the same is built or pleasure grounds adjoining and belonging to the messuage or dwelling house) without compensation except for actual damage done to growing crops, roads, paths, fruit trees or buildings;
that the officers of the Government and their workmen are at all times to have free access to the land for the purpose of making drains and sewers, and laying down water pipes, electric and telegraph wires, and other underground communications, and using, repairing and maintaining the same;
that the Collector and any officer authorised by him or her in writing are at all times to have free access to the land;
that in case of breach of or default in observing any of the implied covenants mentioned in section 13 other than those for the payment of rent and the maintenance of landmarks, the Collector or any officer authorised by him or her in writing, may, on behalf of the State, re‑enter on the land, or on any portion of the land in the name of the whole, and upon the re‑entry the same is forfeited to and vests in the Government.
(2)
Every grant or lease under this Part issued after 1 January 1936 is also subject, in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, to all the following agreements and conditions in respect of the land comprised in the grant or lease:
that the grantee or lessee, and the executors, administrators and assigns of the grantee or lessee, will not at any time, without the President’s written consent and subject to any conditions that the President considers fit, open, work or dig for any oil, mines, minerals, quarries, laterite, clay, gravel or sand (except materials for the making of or repairing new or existing roads on the land) but will to the utmost of his, her or its power keep the oil, mines, minerals, quarries, laterite, clay, gravel or sand pits or deposits unopened and unworked;
that in case of breach of or default in observing the agreement mentioned in paragraph (a) or any such conditions mentioned therein the same powers of re‑entry and forfeiture apply to the land as are by subsection (1)(e) applied to the breaches and defaults mentioned in that subsection.[7