Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Act

(CHAPTER 172)

(Original Enactment: Act 13 of 1983)

REVISED EDITION 1985

(30th March 1987)

An Act to establish a corporation for the construction and operation of a mass rapid transit system in Singapore, to assume the functions, assets and liabilities of the Provisional Mass Rapid Transit Authority and to make provision for purposes connected therewith.

[14th October 1983]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Act.

Interpretation

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

“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Corporation;

“claim” means a claim for compensation under section 36;

“claimant” means a person who has made a claim for compensation;

“Compensation Board” means the Railway Compensation Board established under section 41;

“Competent Authority” means the competent authority appointed under section 3 of the Planning Act [Cap. 232];

“Corporation” means the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation established under section 3;

“Deputy Chairman” means the Deputy Chairman of the Corporation;

“land” includes and may, where the context so requires, have any one or more of the following meanings separately:

(a)	land of any tenure and so much of the airspace above the surface as may be reasonably used or enjoyed by any owner thereof, and all substances under the surface, whether or not held apart from the surface;
(b)	the whole or part of any building or other erection or fixture on land;
(c)	where an undivided share of a leasehold interest in land has appurtenant to it rights to the exclusive use and occupation of a building or part thereof on such land, such share in the land and all rights appurtenant thereto;
(d)	any other estate, right, share or interest in land;

“licensee” means a company which is licensed under this Act to operate the Mass Rapid Transit System;

[Act 17 of 1987 wef 14/08/1987]

“Mass Rapid Transit System” means the rail-based transport system or any part thereof set up or intended to be set up to meet the transport requirements of the public;

[Act 17 of 1987 wef 14/08/1987]

“member” means a member of the Corporation and includes the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman;

“mortgage” means a mortgage or charge registered under the Land Titles Act [Cap. 157] or the Registration of Deeds Act [Cap. 269];

“President” means the President of the Railway Compensation Board appointed under section 41;

“Provisional Authority” means the Provisional Mass Rapid Transit Authority established under section 3 of the Provisional Mass Rapid Transit Authority Act 1980 [18/80], repealed by this Act;

“railway” means the railway, tunnels, viaducts, bridges, crossings, stabling yards, depots, stations and other infrastructures constructed or intended to be constructed for the Mass Rapid Transit System and any extensions thereto;

[Act 17 of 1987 wef 14/08/1987]

“railway area” means the land delineated as such in plans and maps prepared pursuant to section 26(1) or (3);

“railway premises” means any area, space or building owned or occupied by the Corporation which is designed, equipped or set apart for the carriage of passengers by train or for affording facilities incidental to the carriage of passengers by train and includes any train on such premises;

[Act 17 of 1987 wef 14/08/1987]

“Registrar of Deeds” means the Registrar of Deeds appointed under the Registration of Deeds Act;

“Registrar of Titles” means the Registrar of Titles appointed under the Land Titles Act.

(2) In this Act, references to constructing the Mass Rapid Transit System shall be construed as references to undertaking every stage of the process beginning with its design and ending when it is brought into operation.

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