9.—(1) The President may make such leases of the foreshore and sea-bed in Singapore or in any tidal river or channel therein as are declared by the President not to create a substantial infringement of public rights.
(2) The term for which any such lease is granted shall not exceed 100 years except in special cases.
Preliminary procedure
(3) Before any such declaration is made by the President the substance of any such lease with a sufficient description of the property intended to be demised shall be published in the Gazette, together with a notice requiring all persons having objections to the granting of such a lease to send in their objections in writing to the Minister before the expiration of 3 weeks from the date of the publication in the Gazette, and all these objections shall be considered by the President.
Effect of leases under this Act. Covenants and provisos to be contained therein
(4) Every such lease shall specify the purposes for which the land is required and shall be deemed to convey to the lessee the foreshore or sea-bed, expressed to be thereby demised, free and discharged from all public rights and privileges which have existed or may be claimed in or over that foreshore and sea-bed so far as is necessary for carrying out those purposes and shall contain —
(a)
a proviso that in the event of the lessees, their executors, administrators and assigns or successors, as the case may be, failing at any time during the continuance of the term of the lease to use the demised land for the purposes so specified, then a Collector of Land Revenue or any officer authorised by him in writing may on behalf of the State re-enter on that land, foreshore or sea-bed, or on any portion thereof in the name of the whole and thereupon the same shall be forfeited to and vest in the State; and
Saving of rights of State
(b)
a reservation to the State of all mines and minerals under the demised lands and such covenants as to the working of those mines and minerals as the President in each case approves.
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(5) For the purposes of this section, “minerals” includes corals, stone, clay, sand, gravel, and other natural deposits, brine, petroleum and any other mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon, and natural gas.
