Clause 10

to co-ordinate voluntary welfare activities in Singapore not only as between member organisations of the Council but also with other organisations;

to maintain and improve standards of voluntary social work and to encourage voluntary welfare efforts in fields not fully covered by the Government;

to assist member organisations by contributions or otherwise to promote voluntary welfare activities in Singapore;

to initiate, assist and organise such forms of relief and schemes of social service as may be deemed desirable by the Council;

to raise, receive, administer and distribute such funds and goods in kind as are entrusted to it;

to disseminate information to and interest in all possible ways the members of the public in social welfare matters and to encourage participation therein;

to make such recommendations to the Government as the Council thinks fit on matters pertaining to legislation in the field of social welfare or for the furtherance of the objects of the Council;

to establish a Headquarters and Social Service Centre.

acquire or accept leases, purchase, take hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind so ever and wheresoever situate in Singapore or elsewhere;

invest moneys on deposit in any bank in Singapore or on mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements in Singapore or elsewhere or in or upon mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities or any corporation or company carrying on business in Singapore or elsewhere;

purchase and acquire all manner of goods and chattels whatsoever;

grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages and tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds and securities, goods and chattels and to carry on business for the furtherance of the objects of the Council:Provided that nothing in this section shall enable the Council to have jurisdiction or exercise any control over the internal management of member organisations or to take part in political or religious controversy.