ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD (AMENDMENT) BILL

Order for Second Reading read.

5.06 p.m.

The Minister for Finance (Mr Hon Sui Sen): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."

This Bill seeks to repeal the two provisions in the Economic Development Board Act which confer powers on the Board to promote standardisation and to operate a Certification Marking Scheme, as these powers will now be transferred to the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research, which is to be constituted as a statutory body.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.

The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. -[Mr Hon Sui Sen].

Bill considered in Committee; reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.