RUBBER ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE (INCORPORATION) (AMENDMENT) BILL

Order for Second Reading reed. 5.30 p.m.

The Minister for Law and Science and Technology (Mr E.W. Barker): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."

Sir, the amendment contained in this Bill is a formal amendment which is consequential on the amendment contained in the Civil Law (Amendment) Bill, 1979. The reference to the Civil Law Act in the existing subsection (1) of section 19 of the Rubber Association of Singapore (incorporation) Act is inappropriate and unnecessary and the new subsection to be substituted in its place will have no reference to the Civil Law Act.

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 E.W. Barker].

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