Singapore legislation

Clause 3

Declaration of Towns

(1)

For the purposes of constituting a Town Council to control, manage, maintain and improve the common property of residential and commercial property in the housing estates of the Board in any area, the Minister may, from time to time, by order published in the Gazette, declare to be a Town by such name as the Minister may designate in the order an area comprising —

(a)

any constituency; or

(b)

any two or 3 constituencies where the Members of Parliament have agreed to their constituencies being declared to be a Town.

(2)

The Minister may by order published in the Gazette revoke or amend any order made under subsection (1).

(3)

No order shall be made under subsection (2) unless the proposed order has been notified in the Gazette.

(4)

The Minister may, in any order made under subsection (2), make such incidental, consequential, or supplementary provisions as may be necessary or expedient.

(5)

For the purposes of this Act, where any part of the common property of any residential or commercial property is situated partly in the Town of one Town Council and partly in the Town of another, the Town Councils may agree that such part shall be treated as situated in such one of the Towns as is specified in the agreement; and in default of agreement the situation of such part shall be determined by the Minister whose decision shall be final.

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