Section 10

to co-ordinate voluntary welfare activities in Singapore not only as between member organisations of the Council but also with other organisations;

to maintain and improve standards of voluntary social work and to encourage voluntary welfare efforts in fields not fully covered by the Government;

to assist member organisations by contributions or otherwise to promote voluntary welfare activities in Singapore;

to initiate, assist and organise such forms of relief and schemes of social service as may be deemed desirable by the Council;

to raise, receive, administer and distribute such funds and goods in kind as are entrusted to it;

to disseminate information to and interest in all possible ways the members of the public in social welfare matters and to encourage participation therein;

to make such recommendations to the Government as the Council thinks fit on matters pertaining to legislation in the field of social welfare or for the furtherance of the objects of the Council; and

to establish a headquarters and social service centre.

acquire or accept leases, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of any nature or kind and wherever situated in Singapore or elsewhere;

invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Singapore or on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in Singapore or in or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities or any corporation or company carrying on business in Singapore or elsewhere;

purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever;

grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels and carry on business for the furtherance of the objects of the Council;

accept any gift of property, whether subject to any special trust or not;

take such steps by personal or written appeals, public meetings, or otherwise, as may from time to time be deemed expedient for the purpose of procuring contributions to the Fund; and

undertake and execute any trust:Provided that nothing in this section shall enable the Council to have jurisdiction or exercise any control over the internal management of member organisations or to take part in political or religious controversy.