Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of State Lands Encroachments (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Amendment of section 4

Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended —

(a)

by inserting immediately after the word “thereto” appearing at the end of subsection (1) thereof the expression “, and all movable property found thereon”;

(b)

by inserting immediately after subsection (3) thereof the following new subsection: —“(4) The Government may forfeit any movable property which has been seized on the land pursuant to the execution of a warrant referred to in subsection (1) of this section if such movable property has been seized after the expiry of a period of twenty-eight days from the date of service of a written notice on the unlawful occupants of the land requiring them to vacate the land and warning them that if any movable property thereon is not so removed within twenty-eight days of the date of service of the notice such property may be seized and forfeited to the Government.”; and

(c)

by re-numbering the existing subsection (4) thereof as subsection (5).

Clause 3 — State Lands Encroachments (Amendment) Bill