Singapore legislation

Clause 5

of Public Utilities (Amendment) Ordinance

Clause 5

Amendment of section 20

Section 20 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended —

(a)

by deleting the marginal note thereto and substituting therefor the expression “Protection from personal liability.”;

(b)

by deleting the words “them or any of them” appearing in the seventh and eighth lines of subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the words “any such member or employee or any other person acting under the direction of the Board”; and

(c)

by inserting immediately after subsection (2) thereof the following new subsection: —“(3) The Board may make an ex gratia payment out of its funds to any person sustaining any damage by reason of the exercise of any of the powers vested in the Board or its employees under and by virtue of this Ordinance or of any other written law for the time being in force.”.

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