Clause 26

On the appointed day, all moneys in the Nature Reserves Fund established under the Nature Reserves Act [Cap. 205] shall vest in the Board.

On the appointed day, all movable and immovable property vested in the Government immediately before that day used or managed by the Singapore Botanic Gardens Division of the Parks and Recreation Department including all such property at the Botanic Gardens and Fort Canning Park, and all assets, rights, interests, privileges, liabilities and obligations of the Government relating to those properties shall, subject to subsection (4), be transferred to and shall vest in the Board without further assurance.

On the appointed day, all movable and immovable property vested in the Government immediately before that day at the nature reserves and all assets, rights, interests, privileges, liabilities and obligations of the Government relating to those properties shall, subject to subsection (4), be transferred to and held in trust by the Board for the Government without further assurance.

Immovable property transferred to the Board under subsection (2) or (3) shall be held by the Board upon such tenure and subject to such terms and conditions as the President may determine.

If any question arises as to whether any particular movable or immovable property, or whether any particular asset, right, interest, liability or obligation has been transferred to the Board under subsection (2) or (3), a certificate under the hand of the Minister for Finance shall be conclusive evidence that the property, asset, right, interest, liability or obligation was or was not so transferred or vested.

On the appointed day, any scheme, contract, document, licence, permission or resolution properly prepared, made, granted or approved by or on behalf of the Government in relation to the areas designated on the appointed day shall, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act or in any other written law, continue and be deemed to have been prepared, made, granted or approved by the Board under this Act.

Where anything has before the appointed day been commenced by or on behalf of the Government in relation to the areas designated on the appointed day, that thing may be carried on and completed by the Board.

In any written law and in any document pertaining to matters relating to the areas designated on the appointed day, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the Commissioner of the Parks and Recreation Department or the Parks and Recreation Department shall as from the appointed day be construed as a reference to the Board.

Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day, by or against the Government or any person acting on its behalf in relation to the areas designated on the appointed day may be continued and enforced by or against the Board.

For the purposes of this section and section 28, “areas designated on the appointed day” means lands located within the boundaries of the national parks and the nature reserves as designated in the First Schedule on the appointed day.