Singapore legislation

Clause 18

of Town Councils Bill

Clause 18

Functions of a Town Council

(1)

The functions of a Town Council are —

(a)

to control, manage, maintain and improve the common property of residential and commercial property in the housing estates of the Board within the Town and to keep them in a state of good and serviceable repair and in a proper and clean condition; and

(b)

to exercise such powers and perform such duties as may from time to time be conferred or imposed on the Town Council by or under any written law.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the functions of a Town Council shall include the conservancy and landscaping of the common property of residential and commercial property in the housing estates of the Board within the Town.