Land Titles (Amendment) Rules 2000

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 18 Feb 2000

No. S 56

Land Titles Act

(Chapter 157)

Land Titles (Amendment) Rules 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 170 of the Land Titles Act, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. —(1) These Rules may be cited as the Land Titles (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall, with the exception of rule 2(b) and (c), come into operation on 19th February 2000.

(2) Rule 2(b) and (c) of these Rules shall come into operation on 1st March 2000.

Amendment of Schedule

2. The Schedule to the Land Titles Rules (R 1) is amended —

(a)

by deleting items 25 and 26 and substituting the following items:

“

25.—(1) For supplying a copy, reproduced by any means, of any of the following documents available for public search:

$1 per page or part thereof.

(a) certificate of title available for manual search

(b) computerised certificate of title available for manual search

(d) index of easement plans deposited with the Registry

(e) strata title plan and contents thereof

(f) strata title plan cards

(g) approved plan attached to a certificate of title or to an instrument with lots delineated thereon where the copy of the plan is not required to be coloured

(2) For supplying a copy, reproduced by any means, of any instrument or document (not listed in paragraph (1)) available for public search

$4 per instrument or document.

(3) For supplying to a regular bulk searcher a copy of any instrument or document (not listed in paragraph (1)) available for public search which has not been microfilmed or imaged

$1 per page or part thereof.

To qualify as a regular bulk searcher, a searcher must —

(a) in relation to private properties, request a minimum of 50 documents daily and do his own photocopying of the documents at the Registry for a period of at least 2 weeks continuously; or

(b) in relation to properties sold by the Housing and Development Board, request a minimum of 300 documents daily and do his own photocopying at the Registry for a period of at least 2 weeks continuously

(4) For supplying a copy, reproduced by any means, of an approved plan attached to a certificate of title or to an instrument with lots delineated thereon where the plan is required to be coloured

$8 per page or part thereof.

26. For certification of a copy of any of the documents listed in —

$3 per page or part thereof.

(a) item 25 (1), (2) and (3) (including cost of supplying the copy); or

(b) item 25 (4) (excluding cost of supplying the copy)

”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (i) of item 27, the following paragraph:

“

(j) Printout giving details of land and ownership information

$5.

”; and

(c)

by re-lettering the existing paragraph (j) as paragraph (k).

[G.N. No. S 571/99]

Made this 18th day of February 2000.

GOH KIM LEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 02/005/001/Vol. 10; AG/LEG/SL/157/98/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 170(2) of the Land Titles Act).

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