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Land Titles (Strata) Bill

Bill No. 60/1966

Read the first time on 21st December 1966.

An Act to facilitate the subdivision of land into strata and the disposition of titles thereto and for purposes connected therewith.

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

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Land Titles (Strata) Act, 1966, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Application

2. Except as hereinafter provided, this Act shall apply only to registered land.

Interpretation

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

“assurance” includes any transfer, lease, charge, mortgage, transmission application or any other application for vesting made under this Act;

“building” means any building erected on land and capable of being subdivided horizontally into flats;

“Competent Authority” means the Competent Authority appointed under section 3 of the Planning Ordinance, 1959 (Ord. 12 of 1959);

“common property” means, in relation to a subdivided building, so much of the land for the time being comprised in a strata title plan as is not comprised in any lot shown therein;

“flat” means a horizontal stratum of any building or part thereof, whether such stratum is on one or more levels or is partially or wholly below the surface of the ground, which is used or intended to be used as a complete and separate unit for the purpose of habitation or business or for any other purpose, and may be comprised in a lot, or in part of any subdivided building not shown in a registered strata title plan;

“lot” means a lot comprising a flat in a subdivided building and shown as such in a strata title plan;

“management corporation” means, in relation to any particular subdivided building shown in the strata title plan, the management corporation established for that building;

“parcel” means the whole of the registered land (including any part thereof on which stands a subdivided building) comprised in a strata title plan;

“proprietor” means the proprietor of the land immediately before the subdivision thereof;

“registered land” means land which has been brought under the provisions of the Land Titles Ordinance, 1956 (Ord. 21 of 1956), by being included in a folium of the land‑register, and held by the registered proprietor for an estate in fee simple or perpetuity, or for a leasehold estate comprised in a Crown or State lease or a lease from the Government having an unexpired term of at least twenty-one years as at the date of the lodgment of a plan as a strata title plan under this Act;

“registered lease” means a lease registered under the provisions of the Land Titles Ordinance, 1956;

“registered lessee” means, in relation to any subdivided building not comprised in a strata title plan, the registered proprietor of a leasehold estate in registered land comprising a flat which is shown in a plan annexed to a registered lease, having an unexpired term of not less than twenty-one years as at the date of the lodgment of an application by such registered proprietor for a subsidiary certificate of title;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of Titles appointed under the Land Titles Ordinance, 1956;

“strata title plan” means a plan of registered land which —

(a)	is described in the title or heading thereto as a strata title plan;
(b)	shows the whole or any part of the land comprised therein as being divided into two or more strata, whether or not such stratum is divided into two or more lots;
(c)	contains the particulars prescribed by section 8 of this Act,

and includes a plan of re-subdivision of any lot in a strata title plan registered under this Act;

“subsidiary proprietor” means the proprietor for the time being of a lot;

“share units” in respect of a lot means the share units determined for that lot according to its share value and shown as such in the schedule endorsed on the strata title plan;

“subdivided building” means a building shown in a subdivision plan approved by the Competent Authority for the subdivision into strata;

“subsidiary certificate of title” means the subsidiary certificate of title issued under the provisions of section 32 of this Act;

“subsidiary strata certificate of title” means the subsidiary strata certificate of title issued under section 7 of this Act;

“unanimous resolution” means a resolution of the management corporation for which all the subsidiary proprietors have voted.

Application of Land Titles Ordinance, 1956

4. The Land Titles Ordinance, 1956 (Ord. 21 of 1956), shall apply in all respects to land registered in any folium of the subsidiary strata land-register:

Provided that if any provision of the Land Titles Ordinance, 1956 (Ord. 21 of 1956), is inconsistent with any provision of this Act, the latter provision shall prevail and the former provision shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, cease to apply.