Singapore legislation
Clause 184
Clause 184
Regulations
(1)
The Minister may make regulations for or in respect of every purpose which is deemed by him necessary for carrying out those provisions of this Ordinance for which he is responsible, for the prescribing of any matter which is authorised or required under this Ordinance to be prescribed, and in partiular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing for or in respect of all or any of the matters specified in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.
(2)
The appropriate Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, add to, alter or amend the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.
(3)
Any regulations may, where the circumstances of the case require, empower the authority —
to require the owner or occupier of premises, or any other person having a duty under any regulations, to execute any work or perform any act necessary in the opinion of the authority to secure compliance with such regulations or any other regulations and in default of compliance with such requirement on the part of such owner or occupier or other person, to execute such work or perform such act itself and to recover the expenses and costs incurred by it in or about the execution of such work or the performance of any such act, from such owner, occupier or other person, as the case may be; or
in case of emergency or where the owner cannot after due enquiry be found, to execute such work or perform such act itself without first requiring the owner, occupier or other person as aforesaid to do so, and to recover the expenses and costs incurred by it in or about the execution of such work or the performance of such act from such owner, occupier or other person.
(4)
The Minister may in making any regulations relating to obstructions in streets or the cleanliness thereof prescribe the circumstances in which it shall be presumed that an offence under the provisions of any such regulations was committed by the occupier of any building or land.
(5)
The Minister may in making any regulations provide that any contravention of or failure to comply with any regulations shall be an offence and may prescribe the fine with which such offence shall be punishable but so that no such fine shall exceed for any one offence the sum of five hundred dollars, or, in the case of a continuing offence, the sum of fifty dollars for every day or part of a day during which such offence is continued after the date of the conviction thereof.
(6)
The Minister may, in lieu of making any regulations prescribing the forms which by this Ordinance are required to be or may be prescribed, authorise the authority to prescribe such forms as the authority thinks fit.
(7)
All such regulations shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to the Legislative Assembly as soon as may be after publication and if a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of the Assembly next after the expiry of one month from the date when such regulations are so presented annulling the regulations or any part thereof as from a specified date, such regulations or such part thereof as the case may be shall thereupon become void as from such date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.