No. S 498
Town Councils Act
(CHAPTER 329A)
Town Council of Tanjong Pagar
(Conservancy and Service Charges)
(Amendment) By-laws 2013
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Town Councils Act, the Town Council for the Town of Tanjong Pagar hereby makes the following By-laws:
Citation and commencement
1.  These By-laws may be cited as the Town Council of Tanjong Pagar (Conservancy and Service Charges) (Amendment) By‑laws 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2013.
Deletion and substitution of Schedule
2.  The Schedule to the Town Council of Tanjong Pagar (Conservancy and Service Charges) By-laws 2011 (G.N. No. S 756/2011) is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:
“THE SCHEDULE
By-law 2
Type of property
Monthly conservancy and
service charges
 
Normal rate
Reduced rate
1.1-room flat
$53.20
$19.50.
2.2-room flat
$54.70
$28.50.
3.3-room flat
$59
$42.
4.4-room flat
$64.50
$55.
5.5-room flat
$74.80
$69.
6.S1-room flat
$103
$94.
7.S2-room flat
$115.
 
8.Executive apartment or maisonette
$93.50.
 
9.6-room flat or Penthouse
$148.
 
10.Shop with living accommodation
$2 per square metre of the area of the shop subject to a minimum of $70 in addition to the following conservancy and service charges for the equivalent room type:
(a)1-room flat
$20.87.
(b)2-room flat
$30.50.
(c)3-room flat
$44.94.
(d)4-room flat
$59.39.
(e)5-room flat
$73.83.
(f)Executive apartment or maisonette
$100.55.
11.Shop without living accommodation
$2 per square metre of the area of the shop subject to a minimum of $70.
12.Kiosk
$2 per square metre of the area of the premises subject to a minimum of $70.
13.S-commercial property
$3.75 per square metre of the area of the property subject to a minimum of $111.30.
14.Other commercial property
$2 per square metre of the area of the property subject to a minimum of $70.
15.Commercial shops at Buona Vista Community Centre
$5 per square metre of the area of the shop subject to a minimum of $130.
16.Premises at Buona Vista Community Centre for use as Citizens’ Consultative Committee Centre or Residents’ Committee Centre
$0.50 per square metre of the area of the premises.
17.Premises other than at Buona Vista Community Centre —
$1.24 per square metre of the area of the premises subject to a minimum of $53.50.
(a)for use as Neighbourhood Police Post
 
(b)for use as a polyclinic
 
(c)for use as Citizens’ Consultative Committee Centre or Residents’ Committee Centre
 
(d)for social communal use
 
18.Stall other than at Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng Division and Buona Vista Division —
 
(a)Cooked food stall
$173 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(b)Fruit, preserved and dried goods, fresh fish and seafood, meat or poultry stall
$83 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(c)Vegetable, bean curd and noodle, egg, ground assorted spices or miscellaneous stall
$73 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(d)Piece and sundry stall
$96 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
19.Stall at Buona Vista Division —
 
(a)Cooked food stall
$173 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(b)Fruit, preserved and dried goods, fresh fish and seafood, meat or poultry stall
$83 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(c)Vegetable, bean curd and noodle, egg, ground assorted spices or miscellaneous stall
$52 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(d)Piece and sundry stall
$80 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
 
HUP rate
 
Standard
upgrading
Total
upgrading
20.Stall at Kreta Ayer-Kim Seng Division —
 
 
(a)Cooked food stall
$173 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
$209 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(b)Fruit, preserved and dried goods, fresh fish and seafood, meat or poultry stall
—
$104 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(c)Vegetable, bean curd and noodle, egg, ground assorted spices or miscellaneous stall
—
$67 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
(d)Piece and sundry stall
—
$124 for every 10 square metres of the area of the stall or part thereof.
Note:
(1)  The rates specified under the heading “Normal rate” for items 1 to 6 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 6 shall apply to all other flats.
(3)  In paragraph (1) ––
“authorised occupier” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of 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.
(4)  The rates specified under the heading “HUP rate — Total upgrading” for item 20 shall apply to a stall in any market or food centre which has undergone total upgrading under the Hawker Centres Upgrading Programme.
(5)  The rates specified under the heading “HUP rate — Standard upgrading” for item 20 shall apply to a stall in any other market or food centre.”.
[G.N. Nos. S 5/2012; S 375/2012]
Made this 24th day of July 2013.
LILY TIRTASANA NEO
Chairman,
The Town Council for
the Town of Tanjong Pagar,
Singapore.
[AG/LLRD/SL/329A/2011/12 Vol. 1]
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