Singapore legislation
Section 37
Section 37
Power of Minister to make rules
(1)
The Minister may make rules for giving effect to the provisions of this Part and for the due administration thereof and, in particular, for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:
prescribing the manner and procedure for obtaining at a poll, the opinion of owners of flats for lift upgrading works;
prescribing the voting value of votes by owners of flats, including different voting values in respect of different classes of owners;
prescribing the manner for recovering the improvement contribution from owners of the flats;
prescribing the interest and penalty to be paid by any person for the late payment of any improvement contribution;
prescribing any expenditure limits for lift upgrading works;
prescribing anything that may be prescribed.
(2)
The Minister may, in making any such rules, provide that —
any contravention of, or failure or neglect to comply with, any provision of the rules shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $5,000; and
where an offence under the rules committed by a Town Council is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, its chairperson or secretary, or any individual who was purporting to act in any such capacity, that chairperson, secretary or individual (as the case may be) as well as the Town Council shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.[24I