Singapore legislation

Clause 14

of Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (Amendment) Bill

Clause 14

Repeal and re-enactment of section 49

Section 49 of the principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted therefor:“Regulations49.—

(1)

The Corporation may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for or in respect of every purpose which is considered by the Corporation necessary or expedient for carrying out the provisions of this Act.(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Corporation may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

(a)

controlling and regulating —

(i)

the maintenance and operation of the railway;

(ii)

the work and conduct of the employees of the Corporation;

(iii)

the conduct of members of the public using the railway or on railway premises;

(iv)

a system for evidencing (whether by the issue of tickets or otherwise) the payment of fares on the railway and any contract of carriage of passengers thereon;

(v)

advertising on railway premises; and

(vi)

the custody and disposal of property found on railway premises;

(b)

providing the safety of persons using or engaged in work on the railway;

(c)

prescribing the terms and conditions relating to the use of railway premises;

(d)

protecting the property of the Corporation on railway premises;

(e)

the investigation and notification of accidents;

(f)

prescribing the powers and duties of inspectors appointed for the purposes of Part VIA for the administration and enforcement of that Part; and

(g)

prescribing the fees for services rendered by the Corporation.(3) The Corporation may, in making any regulations, provide that any contravention of, or failure or neglect to comply with, any regulations shall be an offence and may prescribe the fine with which such offence shall be punishable but so that no such fine shall exceed for any one offence the sum of $5,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further sum of $100 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.”.