Building Control (Advertisement) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

No. S 16

Building Control Act

(Chapter 29)

Building Control (Advertisement) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Building Control Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Building Control (Advertisement) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 8th January 1999.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2(1) of the Building Control (Advertisement) Regulations (Rg 10) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of "building line", the following definition:

“ “electronic billboard” means any frame or panel specially designed for displaying advertisements consisting of visual moving pictures by electronic means that is —

(a)	affixed onto any premises and visible from any street or adjacent premises;
(b)	erected on or over any premises and visible from any street or adjacent premises; or
(c)	erected within any premises;”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3 (2) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the word "skysign" in sub-paragraph (c), the words "or electronic billboard".

Amendment of regulation 9

4. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) There shall be payable to the Building Authority the following annual licence fee in respect of any advertisement, electronic billboard, signboard or skysign:

(a) illuminated or unilluminated advertisement

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$140 per licence if the advertisement is more than one square metre but not more than 10 square metres;

$20 per square metre or part thereof if the advertisement is more than 10 square metres;

$8 per sign if the advertisement is less than one square metre;

(b) electronic billboard

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$225 per licence if the electronic billboard is not more than 10 square metres;

$30 per square metre or part thereof if the electronic billboard is more than 10 square metres;

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$50 per licence if the signboard is not more than 10 square metres;

$20 per square metre or part thereof if the signboard is more than 10 square metres;

(d) skysign

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$40 per square metre or part thereof.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

5. The principal Regulations are amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the word "advertisement,", wherever it appears in the following provisions, the words "electronic billboard,":

Regulations 2 (2) (2nd and 5th lines), (2) (a)and (b) and (3) (2nd, 4th and 6th lines), 3(1), (2) (a) and (b), (3) (1st line), 4(3) and (5) (1st and 3rd lines), 6(1), 9(2) (1st and 4th lines) and (3), 10(1) and (3), 11(2) and (3), 13(1), (2) (3rd line) and (3) (4th and 5th lines) and 15(1); and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the word "advertisement" wherever it appears in regulation 10(2) and (4) (1st and 4th lines), the words ", electronic billboard".

Made this 23rd day of December 1998.

LAM CHUAN LEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[PWD BCD 43.7.4 Vol. 2; AG/LEG /SL/29/97/1VOL. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 53 of the Building Control Act).

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