Singapore legislation
Section 15
Section 15
Special powers as to ships and aircraft
(1)
Subject to this section, a competent authority may require any space or accommodation in any Singapore ship or aircraft to be placed at the disposal of that competent authority, and may give such directions as appear to that competent authority to be necessary or expedient in connection with any such requirement; and if any directions given under this subsection with respect to any ship or aircraft are contravened or not complied with, the master of the ship or the pilot of the aircraft (as the case may be) and the person having the management thereof, shall each be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.
(2)
Where, in respect of any ship or aircraft, there subsists between a person to whom this section applies and any other person a charter‑party or other contract under which the firstmentioned person is entitled to possession of the ship or aircraft, or has the right to have any articles carried in the ship or aircraft or to use any space or accommodation in the ship or aircraft —
the competent authority may serve on the firstmentioned person, in any manner appearing to the competent authority to be convenient, a notice stating that on such date as may be specified in the notice the firstmentioned person’s rights and liabilities under the contract will be transferred to the competent authority; and
in that event the contract, as regards any rights exercisable, or liabilities incurred on or after that date, has effect (subject to subsection (4)) as if the competent authority were a party to the contract instead of the person on whom the notice was served, and as if for any reference in the contract to that person there were substituted a reference to the competent authority.
(3)
The persons to whom subsection (2) applies are —
every citizen of Singapore; and
every corporation incorporated in Singapore.
(4)
The competent authority may at any time cancel a notice served under subsection (2) in respect of a contract, and thereupon, unless a further notice is served under that subsection in respect of that contract, that subsection ceases to operate in relation to the contract as regards any rights exercisable, or liabilities incurred, on or after the date on which the cancellation takes effect.
(5)
Notice of any such cancellation must be given as soon as possible by the competent authority in such manner as the competent authority thinks best for informing the person concerned.
(6)
The competent authority may, to such extent and subject to such restrictions as the competent authority thinks proper, delegate all or any of the competent authority’s functions under subsections (1) to (5) to any specified persons or class of persons.