Singapore legislation

Clause 216

of Merchant Shipping Bill

Clause 216

Regulations

(1)

The Minister may make such regulations as are necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations —

(a)

to exempt any person or ship or description of persons or ships from all or any of the provisions of this Act;

(b)

to empower the Director to exempt any person or ship or description of persons or ships from all or any of the provisions of the regulations;

(c)

to prescribe the form of any document that may be required and to prescribe different forms for different circumstances;

(d)

to make different provision for different descriptions of persons or ships or for persons or ships of the same description in different circumstances;

(e)

to prescribe the offences which may be compounded;

(f)

to make provisions for any incidental or supplementary matters for which the Minister thinks it expedient for the purposes of the regulations to provide; and

(g)

to make a contravention of any provision of any regulation an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $10,000.

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