Land Titles (Strata) Act (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 15 Jan 2021

No. S 24

Land Titles (Strata) Act

(CHAPTER 158)

Land Titles (Strata) Act
(Amendment of Second Schedule)
Order 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 84A(14) of the Land Titles (Strata) Act, the Minister for Law makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Land Titles (Strata) Act (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2021 and comes into operation on 18 January 2021.

Amendment of Second Schedule

2. The Second Schedule to the Land Titles (Strata) Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting “12(a)” in the Schedule reference and substituting “12(1)(a)”;

(b)

by deleting paragraph 13 and substituting the following paragraph:

“Instrument of proxy

13.—(1) An instrument appointing a proxy must be in writing —

(a)	under the hand of the person appointing the proxy or of the person’s attorney duly authorised in writing; or
(b)	if the person appointing the proxy is a company, either under the seal or under the hand of an officer or its attorney duly authorised.

(2) Where it is desired to afford subsidiary proprietors an opportunity of voting for or against a resolution, the instrument appointing a proxy must be in the following form:

^*I/We, ........................................ of being ^*a member/members of the abovenamed management corporation, appoint ........................................, of ........................................, as ^*my/our proxy to attend at the [annual or extraordinary (as the case may be)] general meeting of the management corporation or subsidiary management corporation, to be held on .......... 20 .........., and at any adjournment of the meeting and to vote for ^*me/us on ^*my/our behalf in the following manner:

Resolution

For

Against

Abstain

Notes:

1. A subsidiary proprietor may direct his proxy to vote on the resolution by ticking the desired box (in favour of/against the resolution or abstain from voting) in the above table. An abstain vote will not be counted in the calculation of votes.

2. If the subsidiary proprietor does not indicate his voting preference in the above table, the proxy may vote or abstain from voting at the proxy’s discretion, in relation to any matter which is put before the meeting (including any resolution to adjourn the meeting or to amend any resolution proposed at the meeting).

3. This instrument appointing a proxy is void if ^*I am/we are present at the meeting.

Signed on .................. 20 ........

..................................................

Signature(s) of subsidiary proprietor(s)

..................................................

Signature(s) of proxy

^*delete whichever is inapplicable

(3) The instrument appointing a proxy is deemed to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll.

(4) The instrument appointing a proxy is void if the person appointing the proxy is present at the meeting.

(5) An appointed proxy can only represent a person or persons appointing the proxy —

(a)

being a proprietor or proprietors, in the case of land in a development to which section 84D or 84E applies, of the higher of the following:

(i)	2 or fewer flats;
(ii)	a number of flats not exceeding 2% of the total number of flats in the development (rounded down to the nearest whole number); and

(b)

in any other case, being a subsidiary proprietor or subsidiary proprietors of the higher of the following:

(i)	2 or fewer lots;
(ii)	a number of lots not exceeding 2% of the total number of lots in the development (rounded down to the nearest whole number).

(6) In the event an appointed proxy represents more than the maximum permitted in sub‑paragraph (5), the additional instrument of proxy held is void.”;

(c)

by deleting the words “unsoundness of mind” wherever they appear in paragraph 16 and substituting in each case the words “mental disorder”; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after the words “revocation or transfer” in paragraph 16, the words “as aforesaid”.

Made on 13 January 2021.

LAI WEI LIN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 63/009; AG/LEGIS/SL/158/2020/2 Vol. 1]

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