PART I | 1. These Rules may be cited as the Housing and Development (Polling for Upgrading Works) Rules. |
2.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —| “beneficiary flat”, in relation to any special upgrading works, means a flat prescribed in rule 2A to be a beneficiary flat in relation to those special upgrading works; [S 299/2000 wef 01/07/2000] |
| “building” includes part of a building and any part of 2 or more buildings; |
| “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) or 34E(1)(a), as the case may be; |
“electronic polling machine” means any mechanical, electronic or electro-optical machine that can —| (a) | be activated by a voter to mark or record his vote for or against any proposal regarding general upgrading works, specified upgrading works or special upgrading works, as the case may be, on a polling display on the machine; | | (b) | process the vote and the value in the vote by means of a computer program; | | (c) | instantaneously record and store that vote and the value in that vote within a memory device within the machine; and | | (d) | sort and count votes and the value in the votes marked or recorded on all polling displays on that machine, |
| and includes any computer program that is used in the operation of the machine; |
[S 117/2003 wef 10/03/2003] |
| “electronic polling system” means any polling system using electronic polling machines; [S 117/2003 wef 10/03/2003] |
| “flat upgrading poll” means a poll conducted under section 65C of the Act in connection with any proposal to carry out any flat upgrading works within flats comprised in a building in a precinct or within any building in a precinct; [S 320/2008 wef 20/06/2008] |
| “flat upgrading works register” means a register prepared under rule 3(1B) in relation to certain flat upgrading works within flats comprised in a building in a precinct or within any building in a precinct; [S 320/2008 wef 20/06/2008] |
| “list of proxies” means the list of proxies prepared under rule 15; |
| “poll” in relation to a precinct, means either a primary poll, a secondary poll, a special poll or a flat upgrading poll conducted under section 65C of the Act in relation to that precinct or a building or buildings within that precinct; |
| “polling day” means any day on which a poll is taken; |
| “polling display” means an on-screen electronic video display, image or representation of a polling paper; [S 117/2003 wef 10/03/2003] |
| “polling place”, in relation to a poll, means the place at which the poll is to be taken; [S 117/2003 wef 10/03/2003] |
| “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 (whether in paper or electronic form) of owners of flats prepared under rule 3 in respect of any particular precinct; [S 117/2003 wef 10/03/2003] |
| “registered owner” means any person whose name is entered in a register, a special register or a flat upgrading works register, as the case may be; |
| “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; |
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| “special poll”, in relation to any building or any 2 or more buildings within a precinct, means a poll conducted under section 65C(1A) of the Act with a view to establishing the opinion of owners of beneficiary flats in that building or those buildings, as the case may be, about any proposal to carry out special upgrading works in that building or for those buildings; [S 408/2006 wef 10/07/2006] |
| “special register” means a register (whether in paper or electronic form) prepared under rule 3(1A) in relation to certain upgrading works in a building or for 2 or more buildings; [S 117/2003 wef 10/03/2003] [S 408/2006 wef 10/07/2006] |
| “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 , the special register or the flat upgrading works register, as the case may be. |
(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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| (5) For the avoidance of doubt, a polling display need not resemble a polling paper provided that it contains all information necessary to enable a voter to mark or record his vote for or against any proposal regarding general upgrading works, specified upgrading works, special upgrading works or flat upgrading works, as the case may be. [S 117/2003 wef 10/03/2003] [S 320/2008 wef 20/06/2008] |
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| Beneficiary flats of special upgrading works |
2A. Where any special upgrading works comprise items of works necessary or ancillary to installing any lift or lift landing or any additional lift or lift landing in a building or for 2 or more buildings, the beneficiary flats in relation to those special upgrading works shall be all flats in the building or those buildings, as the case may be, other than —| (a) | flats on the ground level; | | (b) | flats on the same level of such lift landings as are existing in that building or those buildings before the commencement of the special poll relating to those special upgrading works; and | | (c) | flats which, after the completion of the special upgrading works in that building or those buildings —| (i) | are at least one whole storey above or below any lift landing in the building or buildings; or | | (ii) | are in a part of any of the buildings to which there is no direct access from any level (except ground level) of the building or buildings where those special upgrading works are carried out. [S 408/2006 wef 10/07/2006] |
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