Singapore legislation

Clause 23

of Coastal Protection and Other Amendments Bill

Clause 23

Amendment of section 74

In the SD Act, in section 74(1) —

(a)

replace “in particular,” with “without limiting the foregoing, the regulations”;

(b)

delete paragraph (aa); and

(c)

after paragraph (ea), insert —“(eb)provide for the establishment, registration and regulation of flood protection managers for any prescribed place or coastal protection measure, and for any matter ancillary thereto, including —

(i)

the qualifications and standards a person must satisfy, and the training and assessments a person must undergo, before being appointed, or to continue being appointed, as a flood protection manager;

(ii)

the number of flood protection managers that must be appointed for any prescribed place or coastal protection measure; and

(iii)

the functions and duties of flood protection managers, and the powers necessary for the discharge of those functions and duties;

(ec)establish any electronic information dissemination system or platform on which the Board may —

(i)

provide information on impending high sea level events and flood risks; and

(ii)

give instructions or provide requirements to be complied with or otherwise acted upon,and for any matter ancillary thereto, including —

(iii)

the persons who must subscribe to or otherwise make use of the system or platform;

(iv)

the conditions of access to, and use of, the system or platform;

(v)

the security and authentication requirements for access to, and use of, the system or platform; and

(vi)

where any information, instruction or requirement is disseminated through the system or platform, the time when the information, instruction or requirement is treated as having been received by any person mentioned in sub‑paragraph (iii);

(ed)require the display at any prescribed place of any notice with the prescribed information concerning the coastal protection measure for the prescribed place;”.