The phrase "a statutory board" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a board or organization that is established by law or statute, typically to oversee a specific area or function.
Example: "The statutory board is responsible for regulating the industry and ensuring compliance with the law."
Alternatives: "a regulatory board" or "a government board".
"Singapore must be one of the few places in the world where a statutory board satisfactorily completed everything it set out to do in its first five-year plan," says the narrator of a triumphant 1965 Singapore Ministry of Culture-produced newsreel on the HDB's first wave of buildings.
Heath is right on this: the idea of a statutory board with legal enforcement officers, ordering employers to provide footwear and clothing to their workers, giving them three days' extra holiday, better sick leave on full pay and graded pay rates, does seem an oddly outdated anomaly.
An early major player is the People's Association (PA), a Statutory Board that ran kindergartens in community centres.
A statutory board is an autonomous agency of the Government that is established by an Act of Parliament and overseen by a government ministry.
The lines are built by the Land Transport Authority, a statutory board of the Government of Singapore, which allocates operating concessions to the profit-based corporations, SMRT Corporation and SBS Transit.
Subsequently, Kuan was denied a certificate, the PEC stating that his seniority and responsibility as the Jurong Town Corporation's Group Chief Financial Officer were not comparable to the experience of a chairman or chief executive officer of a statutory board or a company with a paid-up capital of at least $100 million, as required by the Constitution.
The National Heritage Board is an example of a typical statutory board.
A new statutory board will regulate and supervise all human tissue research in the republic.
Birmingham Safeguarding Children Board, a statutory partnership board with responsibility for co-ordinating work to safeguard children, said it accepted the report's findings that changes the board was leading "have not yet had a good enough impact on children's lives".
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A STAR), the Central Provident Fund Board (CPF), the Housing and Development Board (HDB), the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the National Heritage Board (NHB), and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) are all statutory boards.
The creation of embryos specifically for research might be allowed on a "highly selective case-by-case basis where no acceptable alternative exists," a standard that will be subjected to "approval from the proposed statutory board".
