Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
cl 1Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Crown Lands (Amendment) Ordinance, 1961.
cl 2New section 4A
The Crown Lands Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 4 thereof the following new section: —“Presumption as to grant of estate in perpetuity4A. Where any grant of land has been issued under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 4 of this Ordinance prior to the 1st day of March 1961, such grant shall be deemed to confer an estate in perpetuity on the grantee thereof.”.
cl 3Amendment of Schedule A
Schedule A to the Crown Lands Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting the comma and words “, his heirs and assigns for ever” appearing in the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth lines thereof and substituting therefor the words “for an estate in perpetuity”.