Housing and Development (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 6/1996

Read the first time on 27th February 1996.

An Act to amend the Housing and Development Act (Chapter 129 of the 1985 Revised Edition).

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

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Housing and Development (Amendment) Act 1996 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

New section 50A

2. The Housing and Development Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 50, the following section:

“Purchase of flats, houses and other living accommodation by bodies corporate

50A.—(1) Notwithstanding section 47, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, declare any body corporate established by any written law to be entitled to purchase any flat, house or other living accommodation sold subject to the provisions of this Part.

(2) Where an order is made under subsection (1) in relation to any body corporate, the provisions of this Part shall apply with such modifications as may be specified in the order.”.

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