Town Councils (Declaration) Order 2025

No. S 336

Town Councils Act 1988

Town Councils
(Declaration) Order 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Town Councils Act 1988, the Minister for National Development makes the following Order:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Town Councils (Declaration) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 30 May 2025.

Definitions

2.  In this Order —

“asset” —

(a) means property of any kind —

(i) whether tangible or intangible;

(ii) whether arising from, accruing under, created or evidenced by or the subject of, an instrument or otherwise; and

(iii) whether actual or contingent; and

(b) includes, without limitation, any —

(i) legal or equitable interest in real or personal property;

(ii) chose in action;

(iii) money or securities;

(iv) plant and equipment;

(v) intellectual property;

(vi) infrastructure;

(vii) records and information (including data) in any form; and

(viii) right;

“by-laws” means by-laws made under section 28 of the Act;

“conservancy by-laws” means by‑laws relating to —

(a) conservancy and service charges; or

(b) penalties and administrative fees for the late payment of conservancy and service charges or licence fees;

“constituency” means an electoral division specified in the first column of the Schedule to the Parliamentary Elections (Electoral Divisions — Names and Polling Districts) Notification 2025 (G.N. No. S 190/2025);

“declared Town” means a Town declared by paragraph 5 and specified in the first column of the First Schedule;

“former Town” means a Town declared by the Town Councils (Declaration) Order 2020 (G.N. No. S 641/2020);

“interim period” has the meaning given by paragraph 4(b);

“liability” means any liability, duty or obligation —

(a) whether actual or contingent;

(b) whether liquidated or unliquidated; and

(c) whether owned alone or jointly, or jointly and severally, with any other person;

“receiving Town Council”, in relation to a transferred area, has the meaning given by paragraph 3(b);

“records” means registers, papers, documents, minutes, receipts, books of account and other records, however compiled, recorded or stored;

“right”, in relation to a transferring Town Council, means any right, power, privilege or immunity of the transferring Town Council;

“transfer date” has the meaning given by paragraph 4(a);

“transferred area” has the meaning given by paragraph 3(a);

“transferring Town Council”, in relation to a transferred area, has the meaning given by paragraph 3(b).

Transferred areas, transferring Town Councils and receiving Town Councils

3.  For the purposes of section 3(5) and (6) of the Act and this Order —

(a) each area described in the first column of the Second Schedule is a transferred area; and

(b) the transferring Town Council and receiving Town Council for a transferred area are specified in the second and third columns respectively of the Second Schedule.

Transfer date and interim period

4.  For the purposes of section 3(5) and (6) of the Act and this Order —

(a) the transfer date for a transferred area is the earlier of the following dates:

(i) 1 August 2025;

(ii) any date (not being earlier than 31 May 2025) agreed between the transferring Town Council and receiving Town Council for the transferred area; and

(b) the interim period for a transferred area is —

(i) if the transfer date is 31 May 2025 — 30 May 2025; or

(ii) in any other case — the period from and including 30 May 2025 to the end of the eve of the transfer date for the transferred area.

Made on 30 May 2025.

MELVYN ONG SU KIAT

Permanent Secretary (Development),
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

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