PART I | Short title and commencement |
| 1. This Act may be cited as the Street Works Act 1995 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —| “accredited checker” means a person who is registered as an accredited checker under section 16 of the Building Control Act (Cap. 29); |
| “annual value” has the same meaning as in the Property Tax Act (Cap. 254); |
| “Authority” means the Land Transport Authority of Singapore established under the Land Transport Authority of Singapore Act 1995; |
“back-lane” includes —| (a) | every existing back-lane and any part thereof and any approach thereto; | | (b) | all land already or hereafter acquired or set apart for or laid out as a back-lane; and | | (c) | all channels, drains and appurtenances of a back-lane; |
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| “bridge” includes any flyover, overpass and viaduct; |
“building” means any permanent or temporary building and includes any structure or erection of whatever kind or nature (whether permanent or temporary) and in particular —| (a) | a wall (including a retaining wall), partition, gate, fence, paling, platform, staging, post, pillar, shoring, hoarding or frame; | | (b) | a slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or bridge; | | (c) | a culvert, crossing, bridge, underpass or tunnel; or | | (d) | a sewage treatment plant, sewer, control centre, pump house, substation, drain, swimming pool or tank for the storage of any solid, liquid or gaseous matter; |
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| “Building Authority” means the Building Authority appointed under section 3 of the Building Control Act; |
| “Chief Executive” means the Chief Executive of the Authority; |
| “competent authority” means any competent authority appointed under section 3 of the Planning Act (Cap. 232); |
| “dwelling-house” includes a building or tenement wholly or principally used, constructed or adapted for use for human habitation; |
| “footway” includes any footpath, verandah-way, open or covered walkway, pedestrian mall, plaza, square, and other related structures and facilities; |
| “holding” means any piece or parcel of land held or possessed under an instrument of title, capable of being registered under the Registration of Deeds Act (Cap. 269), or where applicable under the Land Titles Act (Cap. 157), relating exclusively thereto; |
| “house” includes any dwelling-house, warehouse, office, shop, school, and any other building in which persons are employed; |
| “key structural elements” means culverts, retaining walls, bridges and such other parts of a street which are essential for the stability or safety of the street; |
| “occupier”, in relation to any premises, means the person in occupation of the premises or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger; |
| “owner”, in relation to any premises, means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the rent if the premises were let to a tenant, and includes the person whose name is entered in the Valuation List authenticated under section 15 of the Property Tax Act (Cap. 254); |
| “premises” includes buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure; |
| “private street” means any street not being a public street; |
| “public bridge” means a bridge which carries a public street; |
| “public street” means any street over which the public has a right of way or which has become vested in the Government under this Act (Cap. 166) or the Local Government Integration Act repealed by this Act, or in any other manner; |
| “road related facility” includes any traffic sign, directional sign, street name sign, traffic light, bus shelter, railing and any other road related structure and facility maintained by the Authority; |
| “road structure” includes any bridge, underpass and tunnel; |
“street” includes —| (a) | any road, bridge, underpass, tunnel, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way; and | | (b) | any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not, |
| and all channels, drains, ditches and reserves that are deemed to be part of the street; |
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| “street works” includes works of levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, kerbing, channelling, draining, lighting, laying of cables and mains and other utility services and otherwise the making good of a street or part of the street; |
| “tunnel” means a tunnel which carries a public street or utilities; |
| “utilities” includes water pipes, gas pipes, sewer pipes, drainage facilities, electricity cables, telecommunication cables and any other pipes, cables and their related apparatuses; |
“utility works” includes works of —| (a) | breaking up or opening a street for the laying, repairing, adjusting, altering or removing of utilities or for the examining of sub-soil condition or existing utilities; and | | (b) | tunnelling, boring under a street or any other construction method which does not require the opening up of a street. |
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| 3. The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, exempt any area or place from the operation of this Act or any provision thereof. |
| Authority to manage, maintain and repair public streets and administer this Act |
4.—(1) The Authority shall be responsible for the management, maintenance and repair of all public streets, including the footways and road related facilities thereof, and for the general administration of this Act.| (2) The Authority may, subject to such conditions or restrictions as it thinks fit, appoint public officers and officers employed by other statutory bodies to carry out any of its powers, functions and duties under this Act. |
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