Singapore legislation
Clause 12
Clause 12
Power to enter land for inspection and survey, etc.
(1)
The Authority or any person authorised by the Authority may enter any land or building situate wholly or partly within the street reserve or wholly or partly within 100 metres thereof in order to carry out —
any inspection or survey which is reasonably necessary to ascertain the condition of the land or building prior to or during the construction of any road structure or road related facility and to carry out all reasonably necessary work of a preventive or remedial nature; and
any inspection or maintenance of any road structure or road related facility which has been constructed by the Authority on, under or over the land or building and to carry out any work and do all things necessary for the purpose of maintaining the road structure or road related facility.
(2)
No person shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), enter any land or building which is occupied without giving the owner and the occupier at least 7 days’ notice of his intention to do so unless —
the Authority is of the opinion that an emergency exists which necessitates immediate entry; or
the entry is required only for the purpose of an inspection or a survey.
(3)
A notice of entry referred to in subsection (2) shall —
describe the purpose of the entry and the nature of any work to be carried out; and
be deemed to be given to and received by an owner or occupier if the notice is affixed to a conspicuous part of the land or building to be entered.
(4)
In subsection (1), “work of a preventive or remedial nature” means the underpinning or strengthening of any land or building and other work thereon intended to render it reasonably safe or to repair or detect damage caused in the course of the construction of any road structure or road related facility.
(5)
The decision of the Authority that any work is of a preventive or remedial nature or that such work or any inspection or survey is reasonably necessary shall be final.
(6)
The Authority or any person authorised by the Authority may as the occasion requires enter and reinspect and survey any land or building in respect of which any of the powers contained in subsection (1) has been exercised and may, in relation to that land or building, exercise such powers as often as the occasion may require.
(7)
Any person authorised under this section to enter upon any land or building shall, if so required by the owner or occupier, produce evidence of his authority before so entering it.