No. S 95
Town Councils Act
(CHAPTER 329A)
Town Council of Potong Pasir
(Conservancy and Service Charges)
(Amendment) By-laws 2015
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(1) of the Town Councils Act, the Town Council for the Town of Potong Pasir hereby makes the following By-laws:
Citation and commencement
1.  These By-laws may be cited as the Town Council of Potong Pasir (Conservancy and Service Charges) (Amendment) By-laws 2015 and come into operation on 1 April 2015.
Deletion and substitution of Schedule
2.  The Schedule to the Town Council of Potong Pasir (Conservancy and Service Charges) By-laws (By 1) 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
1.3-room flat
 
$63
$41.
2.4-room flat
 
$66.50
$53.50.
3.5-room flat
 
$76
$67.
4.Executive apartment
 
$85.50.
 
5.Shop with living accommodation
 
$1.78 per square metre of the area of the shop subject to a minimum of $56.30 in addition to the following conservancy and service charges for the equivalent room type:
(a)3-room flat
 
$43.90.
(b)4-room flat
 
$57.30.
6.Shop without living accommodation
 
$1.78 per square metre of the area of the shop subject to a minimum of $56.30.
7.Kiosk or shoplet
 
$1.78 per square metre of the area of the premises subject to a minimum of $56.30.
8.Stall:
 
 
(a)Cooked food stall
 
$199.
(b)Fruit, preserved and dried goods, fresh fish and seafood, meat or poultry stall
 
$85.60.
(c)Vegetable, bean curd and noodle, egg, ground assorted spices or miscellaneous stall
 
$70.60.
(d)Piece and sundry stall
 
$99.
9.Other commercial property
 
$1.78 per square metre of the area of the premises.
Note:
(1)  The rates specified under the heading “Normal rate” for items 1, 2 and 3 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, 2 and 3 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.”.
[G.N. Nos. S 490/99; S 29/2004; S 272/2007; S 664/2007; S 610/2011; S 105/2014]
Made on 27 February 2015.
SITOH YIH PIN
Chairman,
The Town Council for
the Town of Potong Pasir,
Singapore.
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