Planning (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 33/1979

Read the first time on 21st September 1979.

An Act to amend the Planning Act (Chapter 279 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Planning (Amendment) Act, 1979.

New section 29A

2. The Planning Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 29 thereof, the following section: —

“Development charge payable

29A.—(1) Any development charge payable in respect of any land under subsection (1) of section 29 of this Act shall be —

(a)	at such rate as may be prescribed under subsection (1) of section 32 of this Act; or
(b)	equal to a prescribed percentage of any appreciation in the value of the land arising from any grant of permission to develop the land under subsection (1) of section 9 of this Act,

whichever is the greater.

(2) No development charge shall be payable under subsection (1) of section 29 of this Act if there is no appreciation in the value of the land arising from the grant of the permission to develop the land.

(3) For the purposes of this section, the Chief Valuer or such other person as the Minister may appoint shall determine the amount of appreciation, if any, in the value of the land.”.

Amendment of section 30

3. Section 30 of the Planning Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “ten days of the service of the notice” in the third and fourth lines of subsection (5) thereof and substituting therefor the words “thirty days of the service of the order”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (5) thereof, the following subsections: —

“(6) No person may appeal against any determination of a development charge under subsection (5) of this section unless he has paid the prescribed fee for the appeal.

(7) A person who has made an appeal to the Minister under subsection (5) of this section may proceed with the development without waiting for the outcome of his appeal upon payment of the development charge determined by the competent authority under subsection (2) of this section, but such payment shall be without prejudice to his appeal.”.

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