This provision defines key terms used in the Act, including Board, Director, monument, national monument, owner, occupier, and several types of notices.
Preservation of Monuments Act 2009 2020 REVISED EDITION This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021 An Act to provide for the preservation and protection of national monuments by the National Heritage Board and for matters connected therewith. [1 July 2009] PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title 1. This Act is the Preservation of Monuments Act 2009. Interpretation 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — “Board” means the National Heritage Board established under the National Heritage Board Act 1993; “Director” means the Director of National Monuments appointed under section 8; “enforcement notice” means a notice issued by the Board under section 18; “information notice” means a notice served by the Director or a Monument Inspector under section 16; “inland waters” means any river, stream, reservoir, lake or pond (whether natural or artificial) within the limits of the territorial waters of Singapore; “land” includes any foreshore, site or underground space; “monument” means the whole or any part of — (a) any building, structure, erection, statue, sculpture or other work, whether above or below the surface of the land, and any cave or excavation; (aa) any site; (b) any site comprising the remains of any such building, structure, erection, statue, sculpture or other work or of any cave or excavation; or (c) any site comprising, or comprising the remains of, any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or other movable structure or part thereof which neither constitutes nor forms part of any work which is a monument within paragraph (a), and includes any machinery attached to or forming part of a monument which cannot be detached from the monument without being dismantled; “Monument Inspector” means any person appointed under section 9 to be a Monument Inspector for the purposes of this Act; “national monument” means any monument that is subject to a preservation order and includes any land containing or adjacent to such monument that is specified in the preservation order under section 11(3); “occupier”, in relation to any monument or land, means the person in occupation of, or having the charge, management or control of, the monument or land, whether on the person’s own account or as an agent of another person, but does not include a lodger; “owner” — (a) in relation to any monument or land, means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the monument or land whether on the person’s own account or as agent or trustee or as receiver, or who would receive the same if the monument or land were let to a tenant, and the person whose name is entered in the Valuation List prepared under section 10 of the Property Tax Act 1960 as the owner of the monument or land; and (b) in relation to the common property of any subdivided building, means the person receiving any rent or charge for the maintenance of that common property; “preservation notice” means a notice issued by the Board under section 13; “preservation order” means an order made by the Minister under section 11 placing a monument under the protection of the Board; “proposed national monument” means a monument covered by a notice under section 11(7)(a) of the Minister’s intention to make a preservation order protecting the monument; “site” means — (a) any open space; (b) any inland waters; or (c) an area of land (including any building, structure, erection, statue, sculpture or other work, vegetation, inland waters or physiographical formation, or any combination thereof) containing anything that evidences human activity, present or past, but excludes a site falling within paragraph (b) or (c) of the definition of “monument”; “statutory authority” means a body established or constituted by or under a public Act to perform or discharge a public function, and includes a Town Council. [36/2021]