Singapore legislation
Clause 29
Clause 29
Orders, notices, permits and appointments
(1)
Subsection (1) of section 23 of the Interpretation Act, 1965 (Act 10 of 1965), shall not apply to orders, notices and permits issued under this Act.
(2)
Orders, notices, permits and appointments issued or made under this Act may be of a general nature or may refer to a class of persons or to one person or to any number of persons.
(3)
An order or notice issued under this Act shall be binding upon a person to whom it applies from the time at which it comes to his knowledge:Provided that it shall be conclusively presumed that a person to whom an order applies has notice of such order when it is —
published in the Gazette and where published in daily newspapers in all the official languages — at noon on the day following publication;
announced over the radio or the television — twelve hours after announcement;
tendered to the person to whom it applies or to a member of his family or to another member of his household not being under sixteen years of age — at the time of the tender; or
sent by registered post to the permanent residence of the person to whom it applies — forty-eight hours from the time at which it was delivered to the post office for despatch.
(4)
An order or notice issued under this Act shall remain in force until it is complied with or revoked and a person not complying with such an order or notice at the specified time shall be liable to comply with it as soon as possible.
(5)
An order, notice, permit or appointment, issued or made under this Act, may be subject to conditions and may be revoked at any time.