Singapore legislation
Section 14
Section 14
Rules
(1)
The Board may make rules to give effect to the provisions of this Act.
(2)
In particular and without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the rules may provide for all or any of the following matters:
prescribing the conditions under which a nature reserve may be used;
prohibiting the doing of any particular act within a nature reserve;
prescribing the fees payable in respect of admission to or in respect of any particular use of a nature reserve or in respect of any thing done under this Act;
prescribing that any act or omission in contravention of the provisions of any rule made under this Act is an offence and imposing one or more of the penalties for such an offence, namely, fine, imprisonment and forfeiture:Provided that no fine imposed by those rules shall exceed a sum of $500 and no penalty of imprisonment imposed shall exceed a term of 6 months;
providing for the seizure of any animal or other thing by means of which or in respect of which there is reason to believe that an offence has been committed.
(3)
All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into force on the date of publication.
(4)
Such rules shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication and shall remain in force until disapproved or altered by a resolution of Parliament. Any rule altered by a resolution of Parliament shall come into force as altered from the date of the passing of the resolution and shall have the same force and effect as if enacted in this Act.[13