Singapore legislation
Clause 3
Clause 3
Power to enter and survey
(1)
Whenever it appears to the President that land in any locality is likely to be needed for any purpose specified in subsection (1) of section 5 of this Act, a notification to that effect shall be published in the Gazette and the Collector shall cause public notice of the substance of such notification to be given at convenient places in such locality, and thereupon any officer either generally or specially authorised by the Minister in this behalf and his servants and workmen may —
enter upon and survey and take levels of any land in such locality;
dig or bore into the sub-soil;
do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is adapted for such purpose;
set out the boundaries of the land proposed to be taken and the intended line of the work, if any, proposed to be made thereon;
mark such levels, boundaries and line by placing marks and cutting trenches; and
cut down and clear away any standing crop, fence or jungle, where otherwise the survey cannot be completed, the levels taken or the boundaries or line of the work marked.
(2)
No person shall enter into any building or upon any enclosed court or garden attached to a dwelling-house unless with the consent of the occupier thereof, without previously giving such occupier at least seven days’ notice in writing of his intention to do so.