Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Amendment of section 17
Subsection (1) of section 17 of the Local Government Integration Ordinance, 1963 (hereinafter in this Ordinance referred to as the “principal Ordinance”) is hereby deleted and the following substituted therefor: —“Director may recover cost of new street or of widening, opening, etc. of public street17.—
When the Director has made a new street or has widened, opened, enlarged or otherwise improved a public street, he may, as the case may be, recover the cost of acquiring the land for, and of —
constructing the new street; or
widening, opening, enlarging or otherwise improving the public street,from the owners of the premises —
abutting the new street or public street, as the case may be; and
which do not front, adjoin or abut on the new street or public street, as the case may be, but access to which is obtained through the new street or the widened, opened, enlarged or otherwise improved public street by means of another street or backlane, and which, in the opinion of the Director, has benefited by the making of the new street or the widening, opening, enlarging or otherwise improving of the public street.”.