Singapore legislation
Clause 88
Clause 88
Power to make regulations
(1)
The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for or in respect of every purpose which is deemed by the Board necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance, for the prescribing of any matter which is authorised or required under this Ordinance to be prescribed, and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for or in respect of all or any of the matters specified in the Schedule to this Ordinance.
(2)
The Minister may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, add to, alter or amend the Schedule to this Ordinance.
(3)
Any regulation may, where the circumstances of the case require, empower the Board —
to require the owner or occupier of premises, or any other person having a duty under a regulation, to execute any work or perform any act necessary in the opinion of the Board to secure compliance with such regulation or any other regulation and in default of compliance with such requirement on the part of such owner or occupier or other person, to execute such work or perform such act itself and to recover the expenses and costs incurred by it in or about the execution of such work or the performance of any such act, from such owner, occupier or other person as the case may be; or
in case of emergency or where the owner or occupier or other person having such duty cannot after due inquiry be found, to execute such work or perform such act itself without first requiring the owner, occupier or such other person as aforesaid to do so, and to recover the expenses and costs incurred by it in or about the execution of such work or the performance of such act from such owner, occupier or other person.
(4)
The Board may in making any regulation provide that any contravention of or failure to comply with any regulation shall be an offence and may prescribe the fine with which such offence shall be punishable but so that no such fine shall exceed for any one offence the sum of five hundred dollars, or, in the case of a continuing offence, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for every day or part of a day during which such offence is continued after the date of the conviction thereof.
(5)
All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to the Legislative Assembly as soon as may be after publication and if a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of the Assembly next after the expiry of one month from the date when such regulations are so presented annulling the regulations or any part thereof as from a specified date, such regulations or such part thereof as the case may be shall thereupon become void as from such date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.