No. S 396
Town Councils Act
Chapter 329A
Town Council of Hougang (Conservancy and Service Charges) (Amendment) By-laws 1999
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Town Councils Act, the Town Council for the Town of Hougang hereby makes the following By-laws:
Citation and commencement
1.  These By-laws may be cited as the Town Council of Hougang (Conservancy and Service Charges) (Amendment) By-laws 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st October 1999.
Amendment of Schedule
2.  The Schedule to the Town Council of Hougang (Conservancy and Service Charges) By-laws (By 83) is amended —
(a)by deleting items 1 to 5 and substituting the following items:
 
Items 1 to 5
 
Normal rate
Reduced rate
1.1-room flat
$52
$18.
2.2-room flat
$53
$25.50.
3.3-room flat
$54
$36.
4.4-room flat
$57
$48.
5.5-room flat
$66
$59.50.
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(b)by deleting item 8 and substituting the following item:
8.Shop with living accommodation
$1.53 per square metre of the area of the shop subject to a minimum of $49 in addition to the reduced rate of conservancy and service charges of the equivalent room type.
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(c)by inserting, immediately after item 12, the following paragraphs:
Note:
(1)The rates specified under the heading “Normal rate” for items 1 to 5 shall apply to a flat —
(a)where none of the owners or tenants and none of the authorised occupiers of the flat are citizens of Singapore;
(b)where —
(i)in the case of a flat sold by the Board — any owner or essential occupier of the flat; or
(ii)in the case of a flat let out by the Board — any tenant or authorised occupier of the flat,
 
has an interest in any residential property not owned by or vested in the Board, or in any industrial or commercial property, whether or not owned by or vested in the Board;
(c)which is owned by or let to any body corporate; or
(d)which is vacant.
(2)The rates specified under the heading “Reduced rate” for items 1 to 5 shall apply to all other flats.
(3)In paragraph (1) —
“authorised occupier” has the same meaning as in the Housing and Development Act (Cap. 129);
“essential occupier”, in relation to a flat sold by the Board, means any authorised occupier of the flat who, together with any lessee or other authorised occupier of the flat, will form the necessary family or social nucleus to qualify the lessee to purchase or to continue to own the flat;
“tenant” means any tenant of the Board with respect to an entire flat.
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Made this 9th day of September 1999.
LOW THIA KHIANG
Chairman,
The Town Council for the
Town of Hougang,
Singapore.
[HWF/fa/BYLAW-SC.A99; ND 311/4-146 Pt 28.2; AG/LEG/SL/329A/97/16 Vol. 1]