No. S 579
Planning Act
(Chapter 232)
Planning (Development Charges) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2010
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 40 of the Planning Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Rules:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Rules may be cited as the Planning (Development Charges) (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2010 and shall come into operation on 8th October 2010.
Amendment of rule 2
2.  Rule 2 of the Planning (Development Charges) Rules (R 5) (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended —
(a)by deleting the word “use” in paragraph (b) of the definition of “business zone commercial use”;
(b)by deleting the words “any part of any industrial building, industrial retail building, warehouse or warehouse retail building” in paragraph (c) of the definition of “business zone commercial use” and substituting the words “any industrial building, industrial retail building, warehouse or warehouse retail building, or any part thereof”; and
(c)by renumbering the rule as paragraph (1) of that rule, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:
(2)  The denominator “Z” in any formula prescribed in these Rules has the value of 70.”.
Amendment of rule 4
3.  Rule 4(2) of the principal Rules is amended by deleting the formula
 
A 3
x
(B 3
x
10)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7
 
 
 
and substituting the formula
 
A 3
x
(B 3
x
100)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Z
 
 
 
”.
New rule 7A
4.  The principal Rules are amended by inserting, immediately after rule 7, the following rule:
Special provisions in relation to business zone commercial use
7A.—(1)  Where the use of any floor area in any development of land referred to in rule 3, being authorised for any purpose, is to be authorised by a written permission to be changed to business zone commercial use, the value of such floor area of the development shall for the purpose of determining the Development Baseline of the land be computed in accordance with the following formula:
 
 
 
 
 
 
C1
x
(D1
x
100)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Z
 
 
 
 
where
C1
is the floor area of the development authorised for use for any purpose;
 
D1
is the rate corresponding to both the appropriate geographical sector of the land and the Use Group within which that purpose falls; and
 
Z
is the value assigned to it in rule 2(2).
(2)  Where the use of any floor area in any development of land referred to in rule 3 is authorised for business zone commercial use, the value of such floor area of the development shall for the purpose of determining the Development Baseline of the land be computed in accordance with the following formula:
 
 
 
 
 
 
C2
x
(D2
x
100)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Z
 
 
where
C2
is the floor area of the development authorised for business zone commercial use;
 
D2
is the rate corresponding to both the appropriate geographical sector of the land and the Use Group A; and
 
Z
is the value assigned to it in rule 2(2).
(3)  Where any floor area in the development of land to be retained as referred to in rule 4(1)(a) is authorised for business zone commercial use, the value of such floor area of the development shall for the purpose of determining the Development Ceiling of the land be computed in accordance with the following formula:
 
 
 
 
 
 
A4
x
(B4
x
100)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Z
 
 
where
A4
is the floor area of the development authorised for business zone commercial use;
 
B4
is the rate corresponding to both the appropriate geographical sector of the land and the Use Group A; and
 
Z
is the value assigned to it in rule 2(2).
(4)  Where any floor area of the intended development of land referred to in rule 4(1)(b) is to be authorised by a written permission for business zone commercial use, the value of such floor area of the intended development shall for the purpose of determining the Development Ceiling of the land be computed in accordance with the following formula:
 
 
 
 
 
 
A5
x
(B5
x
100)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Z
 
 
where
A5
is the floor area of the intended development to be authorised for business zone commercial use;
 
B5
is the rate corresponding to both the appropriate geographical sector of the land and the Use Group A; and
 
Z
is the value assigned to it in rule 2(2).”.
Amendment of First Schedule
5.  The First Schedule to the principal Rules is amended —
(a)by deleting Use Group I and the entry relating thereto in Part I; and
(b)by deleting the entire column relating to Use Group I (after Use Group H) in Part II.
[G.N. Nos. S 756/2007; S 107/2008; S 337/2008; S 421/2008; S 84/2009; S 322/2009; S 399/2009; S 116/2010; S 481/2010]

Made this 6th day of October 2010.

TAN TEE HOW
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.
[ND265/5-168 V2; AG/LLRD/SL/232/2010/2 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 61(4) of the Planning Act).