Singapore legislation
Clause 28
Clause 28
Amendment of PU Act
In the PU Act —
in section 20(7), delete “(read with subsection (8))”;
in section 20(7A), replace “prescribe” with “make provision for”;
in section 20(7A)(b), delete “and” at the end;
in section 20(7A)(c), replace the full‑stop at the end with “; and”;
in section 20(7A), after paragraph (c), insert —“(d)the person (including the Government) who must pay the waterborne tax.”;
in section 20, delete subsection (8);
in section 20(9)(b) and (ba)(i) and (ii), after “volume”, insert “, or a reasonable estimate of the volume,”;
in section 20(9)(c), replace “any estimate of the volume” with “the volume, or a reasonable estimate of the volume,”;
in section 20(9A), after “volume” wherever it appears, insert “or estimated volume”;
in section 20(10), replace “prescribe” with “provide for”;
in section 20(10)(a) and (b), after “volumes”, insert “or estimated volumes”;
in section 20(10)(d), replace “estimates of different volumes” with “different volumes or estimated volumes”;
in section 20A(2), replace “prescribe” with “make provision for”;
in section 20A(2)(d), after “person”, insert “(including the Government)”;
in section 20A(3), after “volume” wherever it appears, insert “or estimated volume”;
in section 20A(4), replace “prescribe” with “provide for”;
in section 20A(4)(a), after “volumes”, insert “or estimated volumes”;
in section 72(2)(n)(iia), before “the requirements”, insert “(in consultation with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore established by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996)”; and
in section 72(2), after paragraph (na), insert —“(nb)the recovery by the Board (as a debt due to it) of any costs and expenses incurred by the Board to rectify or otherwise mitigate the effects of any failure by a person to carry out any obligation imposed on the person under this Act;
(nc)the prescribing of any rate of interest for any provision of this Act by way of a formula or other method, and for this purpose the regulations may incorporate by reference any formula or method of another body or organisation, as may be amended from time to time;”.