SINGAPORE PORT (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1959

4.15 p.m.

The Deputy Prime Minister (Dr Toh Chin Chye): Mr Speaker, I beg to move,

That this Assembly, pursuant to subsection (2) of section 490 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Chapter 207), resolves that the Singapore Port (Amendment) Rules, 1959, published as Notification No. S (N.S.) 190 in the Gazette Supplement No. 40 of 27th November, 1959, as contained in Paper S.L. (New Series) 29 of 1959, be approved.

Sir, the Singapore Port Rules of 1957 regulate the movements of vessels and their crews while they are within the limits of our Port. It is to be expected that in a port which is as large as ours, circumstances alter from time to time and changes have to be made to introduce alterations in the provisions of our Port Rules. The last time when the Rules were amended was in 1958. Since that occasion, there has been further necessity for making amendments to the Port Rules. All parties concerned have been consulted, and these further amendments have been embodied in the Amendment Rules which are the subject of this motion.

Generally and briefly, the Amendment Rules which the House is now asked to approve remove certain existing, restrictions which have been found to be unnecessary and provide for better regulation and control of vessels in port.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That this Assembly, pursuant to subsection (2) of section 490 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Chapter 207), resolves that the Singapore Port (Amendment) Rules, 1959, published as Notification No. (N.S.) 190 in the Gazette Supplement No. 40 of 27th November, 1959, as contained in Paper S.L. (New Series) 29 of 1959, be approved.