Singapore legislation
Section 35
Section 35
Regulations
(1)
The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Act and for any matter which is required under this Act to be prescribed.
(2)
Without limiting subsection (1), the purposes for which regulations may be made under this section include the following:
to prohibit or to control and regulate the carrying out of any work on or in relation to a national monument or proposed national monument;
to prohibit or to control and regulate the use of a national monument or proposed national monument for any particular purpose;
to prohibit or to control and regulate the doing of any particular act in relation to a national monument or proposed national monument (including the placement or display of signs, banners, posters, buntings, flags or any other advertising material on a national monument or proposed national monument);
to provide for the preservation and protection of any fitting, fixture, artefact or other movable object that is found in, is attached to or forms part of a national monument or proposed national monument;
to prescribe additional duties to be imposed on the owner or occupier of a national monument or proposed national monument in relation to the preservation, protection and use of the national monument or proposed national monument.
(3)
Regulations made under this section —
may provide that any contravention of, or failure or neglect to comply with, any provision of such regulations shall be an offence;
may prescribe the fine with which the offence shall be punishable, except that no such fine shall exceed for any one offence, the sum of $5,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, the sum of $100 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction; and
may prescribe the offences which may be compounded under section 31.
(4)
All regulations made under this Act must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.