Singapore legislation
Section 152
Section 152
Rules
(1)
The Minister may make rules not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular and without limiting the generality of the foregoing power, the Minister may make rules —
prescribing the form of instruments to be used under this Act;
regulating the practice of the Land Titles Registry and of any other Government office in relation to matters arising under this Act; and
prescribing the fees to be taken in the Land Titles Registry for any matter or thing done therein under this or any other Act, and when and by whom such fees may be dispensed with or remitted.
(2)
All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Gazette and shall unless it is otherwise provided by the rules, come into force on the date of such publication.
(3)
Such rules shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication and, if a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of Parliament next after the expiry of 3 months from the date when the rules are so presented disapproving the rules or any part thereof, the rules or such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon become void but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new rules.[148