Singapore legislation
Schedule 2
Schedule 2
Powers of Board
SECOND SCHEDULESection 7Powers of Board
1. To manage the national parks, nature reserves and public parks.
2. To regulate the planting and maintenance of plants in public parks by prescribing guidelines and requirements for the design and maintenance thereof.
3. To lay out, construct, plant, improve, equip, maintain, supervise and control the national parks, nature reserves and public parks and carry out the following activities:
erect any pavilion, recreation room, outhouse or other building;
provide entertainment or any amenity;
set apart any part thereof for the purpose of any game or recreation and exclude the public from such part while it is in actual use for that purpose;
provide any apparatus for games and recreation and facilities for boating and charge for the use thereof;
place or authorise any person to place chairs or seats and charge or authorise any person to charge for the use thereof;
provide and maintain refreshment stalls, food stalls and restaurants and manage them or let them to any person on such conditions as the Board may determine;
authorise any person to erect, maintain and operate any facility and charge or authorise any person to charge for the use thereof.
4. To plant plants in public parks.
5. To enter into contracts for the supply of goods, services or materials or for the execution of works or other contracts as may be necessary for the discharge of the duties and functions of the Board under this Act or any other written law which the Board is charged with the responsibility to administer.
6. To receive fees, donations, grants, gifts of movable or immovable property from any source or raise funds by any lawful means.
7. To regulate and control public access to the national parks, nature reserves and public parks.
8. To promote or undertake publicity in any form.
9. To make provision for the specialised training of any employee of the Board and in that connection offer scholarships for such training and expenditure incidental thereto.
10. To make awards of recognition, grants, scholarships or contributions as the Board considers fit for the purposes of this Act.
11. To develop, conduct and certify training programmes for any subject matter relating to any function of the Board.
12. To establish, manage and administer any accreditation or certification scheme or a register, for any purpose relating to any function of the Board, including specifying, by notification in the Gazette, accreditation marks and certification marks of the Board and controlling the use of those accreditation marks or certification marks.
13. To offer consultancy services, inform, advise and make recommendations or proposals to the Government or any person on any matter relating to the designation, conservation, development and management of parks and other areas reserved for the propagation of plants and animals, or any other function of the Board.
14. To act in combination or association with any person engaged, concerned or interested in the promotion of the functions of the Board, and pay for or contribute to the cost and expenses involved in such combination or association.
15. With the approval of the Minister, to join in the formation of a company, association, trust or partnership or enter into a joint venture with any person.
16. With the approval of the Minister, to raise loans for the purposes of this Act.
17. To collect, analyse, compile, publish or disseminate information relating to such subject matter as may be necessary for the discharge of the functions, objects or duties of the Board.
18. To provide technical, consultancy or advisory services to any Government agency or to any other person or body in Singapore or elsewhere on any matter related to or connected with the functions, objects or duties of the Board.
19. To charge fees or commissions for services rendered by the Board or for any use of any of its facilities.
20. To carry out promotional activities or publicity in any form.
21. To organise courses and other programmes that the Board thinks necessary or desirable for the discharge of its functions, objects or duties.
22. To apply for, obtain and hold, whether on its own behalf or jointly with any other person, any intellectual property rights.
23. To enter into agreements or arrangements for the commercial exploitation of those intellectual property rights, whether by assignment, licensing or otherwise.
24. To participate in international, regional and bilateral negotiations on matters that relate to animal health and welfare, plant health, wildlife trade control and biodiversity, and to any matters connected with the landscape industry, animal‑related services industry and veterinary science industry.
25. To engage in research, technology development studies or technical cooperation projects.[9/2017; 10/2019]