Foreshores Act 1920 s 5
s 5 Declaration regarding reclaimed lands
5.—(1) The President may, by proclamation published in the Gazette, declare any lands formed by the reclamation of any part of the foreshore of Singapore, or any areas of land reclaimed from the sea to be State land, and thereupon that land shall immediately vest in the State freed and discharged from all public and private rights which may have existed or been claimed over the foreshore or the seabed before the same were so reclaimed.
(2) All land declared to be State land under this section shall be subject to the State Lands Act 1920.
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