Housing and Development (Polling for Upgrading Works) (Amendment) Rules 1996

No. S 454

Housing and Development Act

(Chapter 129)

Housing and Development (Polling for Upgrading Works) (Amendment) Rules 1996

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 65K of the Housing and Development Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Rules:

1. These Rules may be cited as the Housing and Development (Polling for Upgrading Works) (Amendment) Rules 1996 and shall come into operation on 18th October 1996.

2. Rule 2(1) of the Housing and Development (Polling for Upgrading Works) Rules (referred to in these Rules as the principal Rules) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “secondary poll”, the following definition:

“ “Singapore corporation” means —

(a)	any body corporate established by any written law;
(b)	any company incorporated in Singapore, one of whose members is either a citizen of Singapore or a company incorporated in Singapore one of whose members is a citizen of Singapore, and so on; or
(c)	any society, co-operative society, trade union, mutual benefit organisation or other organisation formed or constituted in Singapore, one of whose members or trustees is a citizen of Singapore;”.

[R 7.]

[G.N. Nos.]

[S 90/94]

[S 195/95]

3. Rule 4 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “In” in the first line of paragraph (1) and substituting the words “Subject to paragraphs (1A) and (1B), in”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1), the following paragraphs:

“(1A) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the following persons shall not be the owner or owners of any flat for the purposes of these Rules and shall not be entitled to be registered as such:

(a)	any sole purchaser of a flat who is neither a citizen of Singapore nor a Singapore corporation;
(b)	the joint purchasers of a flat, all of whom are neither citizens of Singapore nor Singapore corporations; and
(c)	any body corporate which is declared under section 50A of the Act to be entitled to purchase a flat.

(1B) For the avoidance of doubt, where only one of the most recent joint purchasers of a flat is either a citizen of Singapore or a Singapore corporation, all the joint purchasers shall be the owners of the flat for the purposes of these Rules and shall be entitled to be registered as such.”.

4. Rule 8 of the principal Rules is amended by deleting the word “Every” and substituting the words “Subject to the provisions of these Rules, every”.

5. Rule 9 of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “paragraph (2)” in the first line of paragraph (1) and substituting the words “paragraphs (2) and (3)”;

(b)

by deleting the word “with” in the first line of paragraph (2) and substituting the words “all of whom are either citizens of Singapore or Singapore corporations or both and who hold”; and

(c)

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

“(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Rules, where any one of the joint registered owners (including tenants in common) of a flat is not a citizen of Singapore or a Singapore corporation, he shall not be entitled to vote in any poll and the vote of the joint registered owners of the flat may be cast only by any of the joint registered owners among them who is a citizen of Singapore or a Singapore corporation either in person or by proxy.

(4) Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply with the necessary modifications to the joint registered owners who are citizens of Singapore or Singapore corporations referred to in paragraph (3).”.

6. Rule 10 of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “shall not” in the third line, the words “, even though he is a citizen of Singapore,”.

7. Rule 13(3) of the principal Rules is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (a); and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of sub-paragraph (b) and substituting the word “; or”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraph:

“(c)	he is not a citizen of Singapore.”.

8. Rule 22(2) of the principal Rules is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “of his identity” wherever they appear, the words “and citizenship”.

9. Rule 33(4) of the principal Rules is amended by deleting the words “joint registered owners of a flat” in the fourth and fifth lines and substituting the words “the joint registered owners of a flat who are entitled to vote in any poll”.

10. These Rules shall not affect any poll conducted before 18th October 1996 in accordance with the principal Rules as in force before that date and shall not disqualify any person from voting at any such poll.

Made this 16th day of October 1996.

LAM CHUAN LEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[440-12-01-0036; AG/SL/1/95/4]

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