Schedule 2

SECOND SCHEDULESection 10(1).Powers of Authority

1. To acquire, hire, procure, construct, erect, manufacture, provide, operate, maintain or repair anything whatsoever, whether movable or immovable, required by the Authority for the purposes of this Act.

2. To carry on the businesses of builders and repairers of vessels and machinery, shipbreaking, carriers of passengers or goods by land or sea, stevedores, wharfingers, warehousemen, lightermen, dealers in coal and other kinds of fuel, dealers in stores connected with or required in any of the abovenamed businesses or to carry on any other business which, in the opinion of the Authority, is desirable for the purposes of the Authority.

3. To provide port services and facilities within the limits of the port and the approaches thereto.[25/86]4. To issue licence, with or without conditions, to such person as the Authority thinks fit to provide any port service and facility within the port.[25/86]5. To acquire any undertaking affording or intending to afford facilities for the loading and discharging or warehousing of goods in the port or the bunkering of vessels.

6. To insure goods in the custody of the Authority.

7. To enter into any contract, covenant, bond, deed, agreement or document of any kind and to provide guarantees, indemnities and securities for the purposes of this Act.[25/86]8. To supply water to vessels.

9. To generate, distribute and supply electricity and other forms of energy for the purposes of the Authority and to vessels and premises within the limits of the port.

10. To provide and use, within territorial waters or otherwise, vessels and appliances for the purpose of rendering assistance to any vessel, or recovering property lost, sunk or stranded.

11. To provide such fire service, both within the port and on the high seas, as may be considered necessary by the Authority for the purpose of extinguishing fires on land, on sea or afloat and of preserving life and property.

12. To control the erection and use of wharves, docks and any other works below high water mark within the limits of the port or the approaches to the port.

13. To reclaim, excavate, enclose or raise any part of the lands vested in the Authority.

14. To do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons employed by the Authority, or of the efficiency of the equipment of the Authority, or of the manner in which that equipment is operated, including the provision by the Authority and the assistance of the provision by orders, of facilities for training, education and research.

15. To provide houses, hostels and other like accommodation, including convalescent or holiday houses, club houses and playing fields, for persons employed by the Authority.

16. To make or guarantee loans to any person employed by the Authority for the purpose of building a house, purchasing a plot of land on which to build a house or purchasing a house, for the use of that person or for the residential use of his family.

17. To make loans to persons employed by the Authority for purposes specifically approved by the Authority as likely to increase the efficiency of such persons in their services to the Authority, or otherwise for the purpose of the functions of the Authority.

18. To own and operate vessels for the purpose of providing any of the services which the Authority is required or empowered to provide.[4/71]19. To regulate and control operations to clean up oil spill within the territorial waters of Singapore.[25/86]20. To, with the approval of the Minister, form or participate in the formation of a company.[25/86]