Committee
Legislative Assembly of Singapore · 24 August 1955 · 1st Legislative Assembly
Official Report, 24 August 1955, Vol 1, Issue 12 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)
Bill considered in Committee.
[Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER in the Chair]
Clause 1 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 2-
Mr Francis Thomas: Mr Deputy Chairman, I have an amendment to move,
After the definition of "road", to add:
"school" includes a children's social centre run by the Department of Social Welfare in Singapore.
The purpose of this amendment is to enable children attending private classes at the social centres to get the same protection that children in the more formal schools get.
Question put, and agreed to.
Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 3 to 5 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Bill reported, with an Amendment.
Third Reading
Mr Francis Thomas: Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill, as amended, be now read the Third time."
Question put, and agreed to.
Bill, as amended, accordingly read the Third time.
Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 24 August 1955. Republished on SGParliament.