Town Council of West Coast (Conservancy and Service Charges) (Amendment) By-laws 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 26 Mar 2021

No. S 181

Town Councils Act

(CHAPTER 329A)

Town Council of West Coast
(Conservancy and Service Charges)
(Amendment) By-laws 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Town Councils Act, the Town Council for the Town of West Coast makes the following By-laws:

Citation and commencement

1. These By-laws are the Town Council of West Coast (Conservancy and Service Charges) (Amendment) By‑laws 2021 and come into operation on 1 April 2021.

Amendment of by-law 2

2. By‑law 2 of the Town Council of West Coast (Conservancy and Service Charges) By‑laws 2006 (G.N. No. S 472/2006) is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) Subject to paragraph (2) —

(a)	every owner or tenant of every flat in any residential or commercial property and every owner or tenant of every stall in any market or food centre of the Board within the Town of West Coast (except the transferred area) must pay to the Town Council on the first day of each month the appropriate conservancy and service charges specified in Part 1 of the Schedule; and
(b)	every owner or tenant of every flat in any residential or commercial property and every owner or tenant of every stall in any market or food centre of the Board within the transferred area must pay to the Town Council on the first day of each month the appropriate conservancy and service charges specified in Part 2 of the Schedule.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraph:

“(3) In these By‑laws, “transferred area” means the area of the former Town of Chua Chu Kang comprised in the constituency of West Coast.”.

Amendment of Schedule

3. The Schedule to the Town Council of West Coast (Conservancy and Service Charges) By‑laws 2006 is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately below the Schedule heading, the following Part heading:

“PART 1

ALL PROPERTIES EXCEPT THOSE IN THE
TRANSFERRED AREA”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after item 12, the following Part:

“PART 2

ALL PROPERTIES IN THE
TRANSFERRED AREA

Type of property

Monthly conservancy
and service charges

Normal rate

Reduced rate

1.	1-room flat

$58.50

$20.50

2.	2-room flat

$61

$31

3.	3-room flat

$68.50

$47

4.	4-room flat

$76.50

$63.50

5.	5-room flat

$83

$79.50

6.	Executive apartment or maisonette

$103

$99.50

7.	Shop, kiosk or shoplet in Blocks 959, 960 and 961 Jurong West Street 92, Blocks 962, 963 and 964 Jurong West Street 91 and Blocks 965 and 966 Jurong West Street 93:

(a)	shop, kiosk or shoplet with living accommodation

$2.43 per square metre of the area of the shop, kiosk or shoplet, subject to a minimum of $62.50, in addition to the following conservancy and service charges for the equivalent room type:

(i)	1-room flat

$21.94

(ii)	2-room flat

$33.17

(iii)

3-room flat

$50.29

(iv)	4-room flat

$67.95

(v)	5-room flat

$85.07

(vi)	Executive apartment or maisonette

$106.47

(b)	shop, kiosk or shoplet without living accommodation

$2.43 per square metre of the area of the shop, kiosk or shoplet, subject to a minimum of $62.50

8.	Shop, kiosk or shoplet in areas not specified in item 7:

(a)	shop, kiosk or shoplet with living accommodation

$2.17 per square metre of the area of the shop, kiosk or shoplet, subject to a minimum of $60, in addition to the following conservancy and service charges for the equivalent room type:

(i)	1-room flat

$21.94

(ii)	2-room flat

$33.17

(iii)

3-room flat

$50.29

(iv)	4-room flat

$67.95

(v)	5-room flat

$85.07

(vi)	Executive apartment or maisonette

$106.47

(b)	shop, kiosk or shoplet without living accommodation

$2.17 per square metre of the area of the shop, kiosk or shoplet, subject to a minimum of $60

9.	Other commercial property

$2.17 per square metre of the area of the property, subject to a minimum of $60

10.	Any property mentioned in items 7, 8 and 9 that is used by a non‑profit organisation for social communal purposes

$0.25 per square metre of the area of the property

”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “items 1 to 6” in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Note, the words “of Parts 1 and 2”.

[G.N. Nos. S 251/2007; S 410/2008; S 382/2012; S 499/2013; S 580/2016; S 218/2017; S 298/2018]

Made on 23 March 2021.

PATRICK TAY TECK GUAN

Chairman,
The Town Council for
the Town of West Coast,
Singapore.

[A/WCTC L-1; AG/LEGIS/SL/329A/2020/18 Vol. 1]

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