Housing and Development Act

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3 Establishment and incorporation of Housing and Development Board

5 Rules as to execution of documents

6 Constitution of Board

7 Disqualification from membership and vacation of seat

8 Disclosure of interest in contract by member of Board

9 Salaries and fees payable to members of Board

12 Proceedings of Board

13 Functions and duties of Board

14 Power to vary rate of interest payable under mortgage

15 Incorporated private companies may be formed

17 Additional functions of Board

18 Powers of Minister in relation to Board

19 Submission of projects by Board

21 Protection of Board and employees from personal liability

22 Power of Board to enter into agreements

23 Board may make ex gratia payments

24 Power to purchase, sell, lease and exchange lands, etc.

25 Compulsory acquisition of land

26 Compulsory acquisition of property before 15th April 1983 not to be called in question

27 Power to make rules

28 Power to make standing orders

29 Appointment of committees and delegation of powers

30 Conformity with Master Plan

31 Power to fix and vary the rent, licence fees and maintenance fees

32 Transfer to Board of undertakings and assets of Singapore Improvement Trust

33 Transfer of properties, liabilities and obligations, etc.

34 Payment of compensation for transferred properties

36 Transfer of rights and obligations relating to applications for HUDC dwellings

37 Charge on immovable property of Board

38 Appointment of Chief Executive Officer

39 Appointment of officers and employees

40 Officers not to be interested in contracts in Singapore

41 Transfer of other officers of Singapore Improvement Trust

42 Pension schemes, provident fund, etc.

43 Retirement of non-eligible officers and employees transferred to the service of Board

44 Safeguarding of Provident Fund benefits

46 Power to sell and restrictions as to registration

47 Restrictions as to purchase

48 Power to vary terms and conditions

49 Special provisions

50 Flat, house or other building not to be sold, mortgaged, etc., without consent of Board

51 Flats, houses or other buildings not to be attached, etc., and no trust in respect thereof to be created without approval of Board

52 Transfer of a flat, house or other building on death of owner

53 Establishment of management corporations

54 Board or company may exercise powers of management corporation

55 Determination of lease

56 Board may compulsorily acquire property sold subject to the provisions of this Part

57 Vesting of acquired property in Board

58 Payment of compensation

59 Taking possession

60 Giving false information

61 Unauthorised subletting

62 Direction of Minister to be conclusive evidence

63 Direction by Board to remove any article or object placed in a manner likely to cause damage to property, etc.

64 Notice to quit, etc., not waived by payment made to Board

65 Power to make rules

67 Annual financial statement

69 Approval of budget by Minister

70 Supplemental budgets

72 Powers of auditor

73 Presentation of financial statements and audit reports

76 Payments to be made in accordance with budget

77 Transfer of sums from one item to another

80 Fines to be paid to Board

81 Sanction for prosecution

82 Conduct of prosecutions

83 Service of notices

Housing and Development Act

(CHAPTER 129)

(Original Enactment: Reprint 1982)

REVISED EDITION 1985

(30th March 1987)

An Act to constitute a Housing and Development Board for Singapore.

[1st February 1960]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Housing and Development Act.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“authorised occupier” means a person who is named in an application made to the Board as the person who intends to reside in the flat, house or other living accommodation sold or to be sold by the Board under Part IV or any person who is authorised in writing by the Board to reside therein except that where such a person has entered, stayed or remained in Singapore in contravention of any provision of any written law relating to immigration, he shall be deemed not to be an authorised occupier from the date of contravention;

“Board” means the Housing and Development Board established under section 3;

“building” includes any house, flat, hut, shed, roofed enclosure or other accommodation, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging gate, post, pillar, paling, frame hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure or foundation connected to the foregoing;

“buildings or works” includes waste materials, refuse and other matters deposited on land, and reference to the erection or construction of buildings or works shall be construed accordingly;

“building operations” includes any building or erectional operations, rebuilding operations, structural alterations of or additions to buildings and other operations normally undertaken by a person carrying on business as a builder and the making of access roads, railways, waterworks, electrical installations and any road works preliminary or incidental to the erection of buildings;

“Central Provident Fund Board” means the Central Provident Fund Board constituted under section 3 of the Central Provident Fund Act [Cap. 36];

“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board;

“Chief Executive Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under section 38;

“Collector” means any officer appointed by the President to be a Collector of Land Revenue or a Deputy Collector of Land Revenue;

“commercial property” means any flat, house or building or any part thereof which is permitted to be used pursuant to the Planning Act [Cap. 232] or any other written law for the purpose of carrying on any business or which is lawfully so used;

“common property” means so much of the developed land and all parts of the building as are not comprised in the flats in a building;

“developed land” means any land of the Board upon which a building has been erected;

“flat” means a horizontal stratum of any building or part thereof, whether the stratum or part is on one or more levels or is partially or wholly below the surface of the ground;

“lease” includes an agreement for a lease;

“Master Plan” has the same meaning as in the Planning Act;

“Municipal Provident Fund” means the Municipal Provident Fund established by the City Council under the provisions of the repealed Municipal Ordinance [1936 Ed. Cap. 133];

“owner”, in relation to any property sold by the Board, includes a person who has purchased a leasehold interest in the property and also includes a purchaser under an agreement for a lease.

(2) For the purposes of sections 33, 34, 35 and 36 —

“Housing and Urban Development Company” means the Housing and Urban Development Company (Private) Limited incorporated in Singapore under the Companies Act [Cap. 50];

“Jurong Town Corporation” means the Jurong Town Corporation established by the Jurong Town Corporation Act [Cap. 150].

(3) References in this Act to a flat, house or other living accommodation shall be construed to include references to the land appurtenant to the flat, house or other living accommodation.

(4) In any other written law and in any other document whatsoever, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the Singapore Improvement Trust shall, except in respect of its planning functions, be construed as a reference to the Board.

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