Singapore legislation
Section 92
Section 92
Regulations
(1)
The Minister may make regulations for or in respect of every purpose which is deemed by him necessary for carrying out those provisions of this Act for which he is responsible, for the prescribing of any matter which is authorised or required under this Act to be prescribed, and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing for or in respect of all or any of the matters specified in the Schedule.
(2)
The appropriate Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, add to, alter or amend the Schedule.
(3)
Such regulations may, where the circumstances of the case require, empower the authority —
to require the owner or occupier of premises, or any other person having a duty under any regulations, to execute any work or perform any act necessary in the opinion of the authority to secure compliance with those or any other regulations and in default of compliance with the requirement on the part of the owner or occupier or other person, to execute that work or perform that act itself and to recover the expenses and costs incurred by it in or about the execution of the work or the performance of any such act, from the owner, occupier or other person, as the case may be; or
in case of emergency or where the owner cannot after due enquiry be found, to execute the work or perform the act itself without first requiring the owner, occupier or other person as aforesaid to do so, and to recover the expenses and costs incurred by it in or about the execution of the work or the performance of the act from the owner, occupier or other person.
(4)
The Minister may in making any regulations relating to obstructions in streets or the cleanliness thereof prescribe the circumstances in which it shall be presumed that an offence under the provisions of any such regulations was committed by the occupier of any building or land.
(5)
The Minister may in making any regulations provide that any contravention of or failure to comply with any regulations shall be an offence and may prescribe the fine with which an offence shall be punishable but so that no such fine shall exceed for any one offence the sum of $1,500, or, in the case of a continuing offence, the sum of $50 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.
(6)
The Minister may, in lieu of making any regulations prescribing the forms which by this Act are required to be or may be prescribed, authorise the authority to prescribe such forms as the authority thinks fit.
(7)
All such regulations shall be published in the Gazette and 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 one month from the date when the regulations are so presented annulling the regulations or any part thereof as from a specified date, the regulations or such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon become void as from that date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.[129