Singapore legislation
Schedule 2
Schedule 2
Powers of the Authority
SECOND SCHEDULESection 11Powers of the Authority
1. To acquire, hire, procure, construct, erect, manufacture, provide, operate, maintain or repair anything whatsoever, whether movable or immovable, required by the Authority for the purposes of this Ordinance;2. To carry on the businesses of builders and repairers of vessels and machinery, shipbreaking, carriers of passengers or goods by land or sea, stevedores, wharfingers, warehousemen, lightermen, dealers in coal and other kinds of fuel, dealers in stores connected with or required in any of the abovenamed businesses or to carry on any other business which, in the opinion of the Authority, is desirable for the purposes of the Authority;3. To provide services within the limits of the port and the approaches to the port —
in berthing, towing, mooring, moving, slipping or docking any vessel;
in loading or discharging any vessel;
in sorting, weighing, measuring, storing, warehousing or otherwise handling any goods; and
in piloting any vessel;4. To appoint, license and regulate weighers and measurers of goods in the port;5. To acquire any undertaking affording or intending to afford facilities for the loading and discharging or warehousing of goods in the port or the bunkering of vessels;6. To insure goods in the custody of the Authority;7. To enter into any contract, covenant, bond, deed, agreement or document of any kind for the purposes of this Ordinance;8. To supply water to vessels;9. To generate, distribute and supply electric and other forms of energy for the purposes of the Authority and to vessels and premises within the limits of the port;10. To provide and use, within territorial waters or otherwise, vessels and appliances for the purpose of rendering assistance to any vessel, or recovering property lost, sunk or stranded;11. To provide such fire service, both within the port and on the high seas, as may be deemed necessary by the Authority for the purpose of extinguishing fires on land, on sea or afloat and of preserving life and property;12. To control the erection and use of wharves, docks and any other works below high water mark within the limits of the port or the approaches to the port;13. To reclaim, excavate, enclose or raise any part of the lands vested in the Authority;14. To do anything for the purpose of advancing the skill of persons employed by the Authority, or of the efficiency of the equipment of the Authority, or of the manner in which that equipment is operated, including the provision by the Authority and the assistance of the provision by others, of facilities for training, education and research;15. To provide houses, hostels and other like accommodation, including convalescent or holiday houses, club houses and playing fields, for persons employed by the Authority;16. To make or guarantee loans to any person employed by the Authority for the purpose of building a house, purchasing a plot of land on which to build a house or purchasing a house, for the use of such person or for the residential use of his family;17. To make loans to persons employed by the Authority for purposes specifically approved by the Authority as likely to increase the efficiency of such persons in their services to the Authority, or otherwise for the purpose of the functions of the Authority.