Singapore legislation
Section 21
Section 21
Reinstatement notices as regards tree conservation areas, vacant lands and heritage road green buffers
(1)
Where it appears to the Commissioner that there has been a contravention of section 14(1) or (2), 18(1) or (2) or 19(1), the Commissioner may serve a reinstatement notice on all or any of the following persons:
any person who appears to the Commissioner to have been responsible for or have participated in anything done in contravention of any of those provisions; or
any occupier of the premises on which anything is done in contravention of any of those provisions.
(2)
A reinstatement notice under subsection (1) requires the person upon whom it is served to remedy (wholly or in part) the contravention or to remedy any injury or damage to any tree mentioned in section 14(1) or the heritage road green buffer mentioned in section 19(1) arising from that contravention and may, in particular, require that person —
to cease or refrain from, either wholly or to the extent specified in the notice, any activity on the premises concerned;
to replant or restore any tree cut or damaged in contravention of section 14(1) or (2), or, if such replanting or restoration is not reasonably practicable or is undesirable, to execute such works as the Commissioner may specify in the notice to alleviate the effect of the contravention, including planting other trees or plants and taking measures for their maintenance;
to alter, demolish or remove any property or material from the premises concerned, or any structure, object, fence, retaining wall, foundation, manhole, pipe, cable, mains or any obstruction or structure (whether temporary or permanent) that the person has erected or caused to be erected thereon in contravention of section 19(1);
to restore any part of the heritage road green buffer to its former state or, if such restoration is not reasonably practicable or is undesirable, to execute such works as the Commissioner may specify in the notice to alleviate the effect of the contravention of section 18(1) or (2) or 19(1) (as the case may be) including planting such trees or plants and taking measures for their maintenance; or
to take such other measures which the Commissioner reasonably considers necessary for the purposes of paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).
(3)
A reinstatement notice under this section must specify the date on which it is to take effect and the period (which runs from the date the reinstatement notice takes effect) within which any step required by the notice must be taken.