Property Tax Act - Singapore Statutes Online

Numbers on houses

50.—(1) The Comptroller may allot a number to or alter the number of any property and may require the owner of the property to fix the number in a conspicuous place on the outside of the property or at the entrance of the enclosure of the property, or change, replace or refix the number within a prescribed time.

(2) The Comptroller may, if he thinks fit, undertake the fixing, changing, replacing or refixing of the number of the property and the expense of such fixing, changing, replacing or refixing shall be determined by the Comptroller and paid by the owner of the property.

(3) The allotment to and fixing of a number on the outside of any house or building which has been erected in contravention of any written law shall not prevent the person who has contravened such law from being prosecuted thereunder and from being liable to the penalty under that law, or the unauthorised house or building from being demolished under that law.

(4) Any person who without the authority of the Comptroller allots a number to any house or building or fixes a number on the outside of any house or building or at the entrance of the enclosure thereof shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500, and the Comptroller may, whether any proceedings have been instituted against any person for contravention of this subsection or not, without notice enter upon the house or building and remove and destroy the number.

(5) For the purposes of instituting proceedings under subsection (4), the act of allotting to or fixing of an unauthorised number on any house or building shall be deemed to have been done by the person who erects or sells the house or building if the person who actually allots or fixes the unauthorised number is not known or cannot be found in Singapore and if the person who erects or sells the house or building and the person who actually allots or fixes the unauthorised number are not known or cannot be found in Singapore, then such act shall be deemed to have been done by the owner or the occupier of the house or building.

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