Singapore legislation
Clause 45
Clause 45
Related amendment to Interpretation Act
The Interpretation Act (Cap. 1, 2002 Ed.) is amended by inserting, immediately after section 35, the following section:“Subsidiary legislation by statutory body, etc.35A.—
Where a statutory body is permitted by any written law to delegate the performance of any of the statutory body’s functions or the exercise of any of the statutory body’s powers, that power to delegate does not extend to the power to make any subsidiary legislation.(2) Where any Act confers upon a statutory body power to make subsidiary legislation, it is sufficient, unless in such Act it is otherwise provided, if the exercise of that power by the statutory body is signified under the hand of —
the chairperson of the statutory body; or
a member of the statutory body duly authorised by that body to do so in place of the chairperson.”.