Parks and Trees (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2015

No. S 555

Parks and Trees Act

(CHAPTER 216)

Parks and Trees
(Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 63 of the Parks and Trees Act, the National Parks Board, with the approval of the Minister for National Development, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Parks and Trees (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2015 and come into operation on 12 September 2015.

Amendment of regulation 8

2. Regulation 8 of the Parks and Trees Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraph:

“(3) In addition to paragraphs (1) and (2), no person may, except with the approval of the Commissioner and in accordance with the terms and conditions of such approval —

(a)	carry out any play-reading, recital, lecture, talk, address, debate or discussion;
(b)	organise or participate (other than solely as a member of audience), in any performance or exhibition; or
(c)	organise any demonstration,

at the area known as Speakers’ Corner in Hong Lim Park and described in the Second Schedule.”.

Amendment of regulation 17

3. Regulation 17(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “specified in the”, the word “First”.

Renaming of Schedule and new Second Schedule

4. The principal Regulations are amended by renaming the Schedule as the First Schedule, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following Schedule:

“SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 8(3)

Speakers’ Corner in Hong Lim Park

All that land within the boundaries commencing from the junction of New Bridge Road and North Canal Road to the junction of North Canal Road and South Bridge Road to the junction of South Bridge Road and Upper Pickering Street to the junction of Upper Pickering Street and New Bridge Road, and which is more particularly delineated in the Plan below.

”.

[G.N. Nos. S 425/2008; S 484/2009; S 379/2011; S 224/2012; S 74/2013; S 160/2015; S 530/2015]

Made on 8 September 2015.

CHRISTINA ONG

Chairman,
National Parks Board,
Singapore.

[NP 1.1.11; AG/LEGIS/SL/216/2015/1 Vol. 1]

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