Housing and Development (Polling for Upgrading Works) Rules

Housing and Development Act

(Chapter 129, Section 65K)

R 7

G.N. No. S 361/1993

REVISED EDITION 1999

(1st January 1999)

[8th September 1993]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Rules may be cited as the Housing and Development (Polling for Upgrading Works) Rules.

Definitions

2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —

“building” includes part of a building ;

“chief polling officer” means the chief polling officer appointed under rule 16(1)(a) and includes a deputy chief polling officer appointed under rule 16(2);

“daily statement of the poll” means the statement prepared in respect of any polling day under rule 29(1)(b) ;

“list of proxies” means the list of proxies prepared under rule 15;

“poll” in relation to a precinct, means either a primary pollor a secondary poll conducted under section 65C of the Act in relation to that precinct or a building within that precinct;

“polling day” means any day on which a poll is taken;

“primary poll”, in relation to a precinct, means a poll conducted under section 65C of the Act in relation to the precinct with a view to establishing the opinions of owners of flats within the precinct about any proposal to carry out general upgrading works within that precinct;

“register” means a register of owners of flats prepared under rule 3 in respect of any particular precinct;

“registered owner” means any person whose name is entered in a register;

“scrutineer” means a scrutineer appointed under rule 16 for the purposes of a poll;

“secondary poll”, in relation to a building within a precinct, means a poll conducted under section 65C of the Act in relation to the building within the precinct with a view to establishing the opinions of the owners of residential or non-residential flats in the building about any proposal to carry out specified upgrading works in that building;

“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;

“voter” means a person who applies to vote or votes at a poll, whether or not he is a registered owner.

(2) Any reference in these Rules to the commencement of a poll shall be a reference to the first polling day of the poll.

(3) For the purposes of these Rules, the seniority of joint owners of any flat shall be determined by the order in which the names of the joint owners appear in the register .

(4) For the purposes of these Rules, a person or group of persons shall be regarded as the common registered owner of more than one flat if and only if —

(a)	he is the sole registered owner of each of the flats; or
(b)	the group comprises persons who are the same joint registered owners of each of the flats and whose shares and interests in each of those flats are the same, whether equal or unequal.

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