Singapore legislation
Clause 12
Clause 12
New sections 35A and 35B
The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 35, the following sections:“Board may appoint legal counsel35A. For the purposes of any investigation by an Investigation Committee, any hearing under section 30 or 32 by the Board or any appeal to the High Court under section 33, the Investigation Committee or the Board, as the case may be, may appoint an advocate and solicitor and pay him such remuneration as the Board may determine.Costs and expenses35B.—
Where the Board has made —
an order of cancellation of registration or suspension from practice under section 30 against a registered surveyor;
an order of revocation of a licence under section 32 against a corporation or partnership; or
an order imposing any pecuniary penalty on a registered surveyor under section 30(2) or on a corporation or partnership under section 32(2),the Board may order the registered surveyor, corporation or partnership, as the case may be, to pay to the Board such sum as it thinks fit in respect of costs and expenses incurred by the Board.(2) The High Court shall have the jurisdiction to tax any sum ordered by the Board under subsection (1), and such order shall be enforceable as if it were ordered in connection with a civil action in the High Court.(3) The costs and expenses referred to in subsection (1) shall include —
the costs and expenses of any advocate and solicitor appointed under section 35A;
such reasonable expenses as the Board may pay to witnesses; and
such reasonable expenses as may be incurred by the Board in respect of the investigation by the Investigation Committee or in the conduct of proceedings before the Board or any appeal to the High Court.”.