NATURE RESERVES ORDINANCE (MODIFICATION OF SCHEDULE)

3.12 p.m.

The Minister for Law and National Development (Mr E. W. Barker): Mr Speaker. Sir, I beg to move the motion* standing in my name as it appears on the Order Paper.

Sir, in order to provide our citizens with additional facilities for recreational purposes, the Public Utilities Board is developing parts of the catchment areas of MacRitchie and Seletar Reservoirs into public parks. In fact, hundreds of people visit these reservoirs during week-days and thousands during weekends. As parts of these catchment areas form part of the Natute Reserves, it is necessary to delete these areas from the Schedule to the Nature Reserves Ordinance in the manner provided under section 4 thereof. Hence the motion.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

• That this Parliament, pursuant to subsection (I) of section 4 of the Nature Reserves Ordinance (Chapter 235), resolves that paragraph I of the Schedule to the said Ordinance be deleted and the following substituted therefor :-

`All those pieces of land situate in the Mukims of Sembawang, Mandai, Ulu Kalang, l3ukit Timah and Toa Payoh in the Republic of Singapore forming part of the Public Utilities Board Catchment area described as follows: -

Approximate Area Lot No. Mukim Acres Roods Perches 13-2 Sembawang No. XIII 3 3 13.60 Part of 13-3 Sembawang No. XIII 476 2 - Part of 31-2 Mandai No. XIV 2,321 0 - 28 Ulu Kalang No. XV 3 2 34.00 29 Ulu Kalang No. XV 0 0 12.00 30 Ulu Kalang No. XV 5 1 14.00 13-6 Ulu Kalang No. XV 3 2 09.20 Parts of 155 Ulu Kalang No. XV 2,667 3 11.00 66 Bukit Timah No. XVI 576 0 - Parts of 115-2 Toa Payoh No. XVII 650 3 23.00 The bounderies of these areas are more particularly delineated and edged green on Certified Plan No. 13241 filed in the Office of the Chief Surveyor, Singapore.