Singapore legislation

Clause 47

of Public Utilities Ordinance

Clause 47

Supply lines and other apparatus on Crown land

(1)

Subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Lands and to such conditions as the Commissioner of Lands may deem proper, a licence may extend to authorising the licensee to lay, place or carry on, under or over Crown land to the extent and in the manner specified in the licence, such supply lines, and to erect and maintain in or upon Crown land such posts and other apparatus as may in the opinion of the Board be necessary or proper for the purposes of the licensed installation, and, subject always to the approval of the Commissioner of Lands, such authorisation may be given or added to at any time during the currency of the licence by endorsement thereon under the hand of the General Manager.

(2)

All apparatus placed in or upon Crown land which is not removed therefrom within six months, or such longer period as the Commissioner of Lands may permit, after the expiration or earlier determination of the licence under the authority whereof such apparatus was so placed, shall vest in and become the property of the Crown.