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Urban Redevelopment Authority
Act 1989

2020 REVISED EDITION

This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021

An Act to give effect to the merger of the existing Urban Redevelopment Authority established under the Urban Redevelopment Authority Act (Chapter 340 of the 1985 Revised Edition) and the Planning Department and the Research and Statistics Unit of the Ministry of National Development by the establishment and incorporation of the new Urban Redevelopment Authority and to provide for matters connected therewith.

[1 September 1989]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act is the Urban Redevelopment Authority Act 1989.

Interpretation

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

“Authority” means the Urban Redevelopment Authority established by section 3;

“building” includes any house, flat, hut, shed, roofed enclosure or other accommodation, whether used for the purpose of 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;

“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Authority and includes any temporary Chairperson of the Authority;

“chief executive” means the chief executive of the Authority, and includes any individual acting in that capacity;

“develop” has the meaning given by section 12 of the Planning Act (Cap. 232, 1990 Revised Edition);

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

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

“former Authority” means the Urban Redevelopment Authority established under the repealed Act;

“Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore” means the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore established under the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Act 1992;

“Jurong Town Corporation” means the Jurong Town Corporation established under the Jurong Town Corporation Act 1968;

“land” includes benefits to rise out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;

“member” means a member of the Authority;

“monument” has the meaning given by the Preservation of Monuments Act 2009;

“Planning Department” means the Planning Department of the Ministry of National Development;

“property” includes houses, buildings, lands and tenements;

“repealed Act” means the Urban Redevelopment Authority Act (Cap. 340, 1985 Revised Edition) repealed by this Act;

“Research and Statistics Unit” means the Research and Statistics Unit of the Ministry of National Development;

“unit” includes a flat, a shop, an office or other tenement within an urban redevelopment area;

“urban redevelopment” includes the construction, reconstruction, extension, repair, alteration, change of use, aggregation and subdivision of a building and change of use, aggregation and subdivision of land;

“urban redevelopment area” means an area, with or without any building therein, declared by notification in the Gazette under section 8(1) to be an urban redevelopment area for the purposes of this Act.

[11/2003; 16/2009; 20/2013; 5/2018]