Boundaries and Survey Maps (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 31/1973

Read the first time on 11th July 1973.

An Act to amend the Boundaries and Survey Maps Act (Chapter 265 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Boundaries and Survey Maps (Amendment) Act, 1973 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 35

2. Section 35 of the Boundaries and Survey Maps Act is hereby amended —

(a)

by inserting immediately after the word “boundaries” appearing in the second line thereof the words “of a holding”;

(b)

by re-numbering the section as subsection (1); and

(c)

by adding thereto the following subsection: —

“(2) Whenever it is found that the boundaries of a Mukim or Town Sub-division shown on any map published under this Act should be altered by reason of —

(a)	any correction, addition or alteration of the boundaries of any holding made in accordance with subsection (1) of this section; or
(b)	the change in, alteration or deviation of, any boundary-mark of the Mukim or Town Sub-division boundaries; or
(c)	any reclamation of the foreshore or sea-bed,

the Chief Surveyor may, after the publication of a notice in the Gazette describing the alteration of the boundaries of the Mukim or Town Sub-division, make an order for the delineation or alteration of such boundaries on a map published under this Act.”.

Validation of past alterations

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, any alteration of the boundaries of Mukims or Town Sub-divisions shown on any map published under the Boundaries and Survey Maps Act shall not be invalid by reason of it being made at any time before the date of commencement of this Act and any such alteration shall be deemed to have been made under subsection (2) of section 35 of the Boundaries and Survey Maps Act (inserted by section 2 of this Act) as if that subsection had been in force at the time the alteration was made.

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