Clause 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Botanic Gardens” means all that piece of land comprised in Lot 97 of Mukim No. 11 in the district of Tanglin in Singapore, known as the Botanic Gardens of Singapore containing an area of approximately thirty-two hectares (eighty acres two roods and thirty poles) the boundaries of which are more particularly delineated and edged in a neutral tint on certified plan No. 10226 filed in the office of the Chief Surveyor;

“Chief Surveyor” has the same meaning as in the Land Surveyors Act (Cap. 216);

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and includes a Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Parks and Recreation and a curator appointed under section 3;

“competent authority” means any one or more Government or statutory authorities empowered by any written law to approve plans for the development or subdivision of any land or plans relating to the construction of buildings;

“curator” means a person appointed as a curator under section 3 to manage and supervise a park;

“felling” includes wilfully destroying by any means;

“occupier”, in relation to any land, means any person in actual occupation of the land, and includes the owner of the land and any other person in receipt of the rents or profits thereof, and any agent or trustee of an occupier of the land;

“plants” includes shrubs, climbers, creepers, hedges, ferns, flowers and lawn-grasses;

“private street” means any street not being a public street;

“public park” includes the Botanic Gardens and any walk, recreation ground, playground, open space, traffic island, side table or garden maintained by the Commissioner;

“public street” means any street over which the public has a right of way which has been transferred to or has become vested in the Government under the Local Government Integration Act (Cap. 210) or in any other manner;

“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way, and also the way over any public bridge, and also includes any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, drains, ditches, reserves and side tables at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of the street;

“vacant land” means any side table, or land which has not been developed for residential or industrial purposes, and includes any land on which any building or structure has been erected in contravention of any written law or in respect of which a temporary permit has been issued by the Assistant Director of Public Works attached to the Building Control Division of the Public Works Department;

“vehicle” means a vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise except a perambulator or an invalid carriage the weight of which unladen does not exceed two hundred and fifty-four kilogrammes (five hundredweight) and which is specially designed and constructed and not merely adapted for the use of a person suffering from some physical defect or disability and is used solely by such person.

Where references to units of measurement are expressed in both Imperial and Metric units, the Metric units shall prevail.