No. S 137
Town Councils Act
(CHAPTER 329A)
Town Councils
(Declaration of Towns) (Amendment No. 2)
Order 2013
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Town Councils Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Order may be cited as the Town Councils (Declaration of Towns) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2013.
Amendment of First Schedule
2.  The First Schedule to the Town Councils (Declaration of Towns) Order 2011 (G.N. No. S 263/2011) is amended —
(a)by inserting, immediately after item 9, the following item:
9A.Constituency of Nee Soon
Nee Soon
”; and
(b)by deleting item 12 and substituting the following item:
12.Constituency of Sembawang
Sembawang
”.
Amendment of Second Schedule
3.  The Second Schedule to the Town Councils (Declaration of Towns) Order 2011 is amended by inserting, immediately after Part XII, the following Part:
Part XIII
Sembawang-nee Soon Town Council
1.  As from 1st April 2013, the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang‑Nee Soon shall be known as the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang; and any reference in any written law or document to the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang-Nee Soon shall be read as a reference to the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang.
2.  The change in corporate name of the Town Council of Sembawang-Nee Soon by virtue of paragraph 1 shall not operate —
(a)to create a new legal entity;
(b)to prejudice or affect the identity of the Town Council or its continuity as a Town Council;
(c)to affect the property of, or the exercise of any right or the enforcement of any obligation by or against, the Town Council; or
(d)to render defective any legal proceedings by or against the Town Council,
and any legal proceedings that might have been continued or commenced by or against the Town Council in its former corporate name may be continued or commenced by or against the Town Council in its new corporate name.
3.  As from 1st April 2013 —
(a)all the property, rights and liabilities comprised in the undertaking of the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang-Nee Soon to which that Town Council was entitled or subject immediately before that date and which related to or were connected with the constituency of Nee Soon which, by virtue of this Order, becomes comprised in the Town of Nee Soon (referred to in this Part as the transferred undertaking) shall become, by virtue of this Order and without further assurance, the property, rights and liabilities of the Town Council for the Town of Nee Soon;
(b)all deeds, agreements, instruments and working arrangements subsisting immediately before that date affecting the transferred undertaking shall continue in force on and after that date and shall be enforceable by or against the Town Council for the Town of Nee Soon as if, instead of the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang‑Nee Soon, the Town Council for the Town of Nee Soon had been named therein or had been a party thereof; and
(c)any proceedings or cause of action that relate to the transferred undertaking and that are pending or existing immediately before that date by or against the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang‑Nee Soon may be continued and shall be enforced by or against the Town Council for the Town of Nee Soon.
4.  If any question arises as to whether any particular property, right or liability has been transferred to or vested under this Part in the Town Council for the Town of Nee Soon, a certificate under the hand of the Minister shall be conclusive evidence that the property, right or liability was or was not so transferred or vested.
5.  All by‑laws made by the Town Council for the Town of Sembawang‑Nee Soon before 1st April 2013 and in force on 31st March 2013 shall continue to apply, with the necessary modifications, to the constituency of Nee Soon until —
(a)such time such by-laws as are made by the Town Council for the Town of Nee Soon for that constituency are in force; or
(b)31st May 2013,
whichever first occurs.”.
[G.N. No. S 97/2013]
Made this 11th day of March 2013.
BENNY LIM
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.
[ND311/4-146 Pt85; AG/LLRD/SL/329A/2011/1 Vol. 1]