Town Councils (Amendment) Bill

by deleting the words “, market and food centres and of other” in the fifth and sixth lines of subsection (1) and in subsection (4) and substituting in each case the words “and of”;

by deleting subsection (5) and substituting the following subsection:“(5) The Minister may, from time to time, prescribe the minimum amount of —

the conservancy and service charges which are paid, or are due and payable, or both, to a Town Council under section 38; and

any grants-in-aid made to a Town Council under section 41,to be paid or credited into the sinking funds established for residential property and for commercial property.”;

by deleting the words “, market and food centres and other” in paragraph (a)(i) and (iii) of subsection (6) and substituting in each case the word “and”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (6), the following subsection:“(6A) Notwithstanding anything in this section, a Town Council may, with the approval of the Minister, disburse moneys from the Town Council Fund to repair and maintain any facility erected within the Town that is outside the common property of the residential and commercial property in the housing estates of the Board within the Town where the owner of the property on which the facility is erected consents.”;

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “designated land” in subsection (11), the following definition:“ “commercial property” means any commercial property which does not form part of any residential property and includes any market and food centre;”;

by deleting the semicolon at the end of the definition of “designated land” in subsection (11) and substituting a full-stop; and

by deleting the definition of “other commercial property” in subsection (11).