Singapore legislation
Regulation 12
Regulation 12
General power to remove and detain contravening items
Subregulation 1
Subject to paragraph (2), the Corporation may at any time remove and detain a contravening item.
Subregulation 2
After the Corporation serves a removal notice on a relevant person in relation to a contravening item, and the relevant person does not comply with the removal notice within the period specified in the removal notice, the Corporation may remove and detain the contravening item.
Subregulation 3
Where the contravention or removal of the contravening item causes any damage to any common property and the relevant person served with the removal notice does not repair the damage within the period specified in the removal notice, the Corporation may repair such damage.
Subregulation 4
The Corporation must, as soon as practicable after removing and detaining a contravening item, serve a written notice on —
a person who appears, to the satisfaction of the Corporation, to be the owner of the contravening item; or
if such a person cannot be found after reasonable inquiry, the person who appears, to the satisfaction of the Corporation, to have had lawful possession of the contravening item.
Subregulation 5
The written notice in paragraph (4) must inform the person served the notice —
that the contravening item has been removed and where it is being detained; and
that the person may claim possession of the contravening item upon payment to the Corporation, within 30 days after the date of service of the notice, of expenses reasonably incurred by the Corporation in removing or detaining the contravening item or repairing any damage to common property caused by the placement, depositing or removal of the contravening item.
Subregulation 6
Nothing in this rule authorises the Corporation to enter the property of any person within any land vested in the Corporation unless the consent of the owner of the property has been first obtained.