Parking Places (Housing and Development Board) Order

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Parking Places Act

(CHAPTER 214, Section 9)

Parking Places (Housing and Development Board) Order

O 1

G.N. No. S 440/2000

REVISED EDITION 2009

(31st March 2009)

[1st October 2000]

Citation

1. This Order may be cited as the Parking Places (Housing and Development Board) Order.

Definitions

2. In this Order —

“commercial property” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2 of the Housing and Development (Maintenance Fees and Rent — Commercial and Industrial Properties and Hawker Stalls) Notification (Cap. 129, N 3);

[S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

“Deputy Superintendent” means the Deputy Superintendent of Car Parks (Housing and Development Board) appointed under section 3(3) of the Act;

[S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

“Form” means a form of a parking coupon set out in the Second Schedule to the Parking Places (Coupon Parking) Rules (R 3) and a form so numbered means a form so numbered in that Schedule;

“Housing and Development Board” means the Housing and Development Board established under section 3 of the Housing and Development Act (Cap. 129);

[S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

“housing estate” means any housing estate built on any land vested in or held in trust by the Housing and Development Board;

“industrial property” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2 of the Housing and Development (Maintenance Fees and Rent — Commercial and Industrial Properties and Hawker Stalls) Notification;

[S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

“monthly parking coupon” means a parking coupon in Form 5;

“operating hours” means the days and times indicated on any parking sign;

“parking sign” means any parking sign placed or erected by the Superintendent in accordance with rule 2A of the Parking Places Rules (R 2) at or near any parking place indicating that such place is a parking place within section 4 of the Act;

“plans” means the plans of designated parking places approved by the Superintendent which are available for inspection by the public free of charge during normal office hours at the office of the Deputy Superintendent;

[S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

[Deleted by S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

“stall” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2 of the Housing and Development (Maintenance Fees and Rent — Commercial and Industrial Properties and Hawker Stalls) Notification;

[S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

“whole day parking coupon” means a parking coupon in Form 4.

Charges

3. The charges set out in each Part of the First Schedule are payable for the parking of motor cars, motor vehicles, motor cycles or motor scooters during the operating hours of any parking place described in the plans relating to that Part, except where —

(a)	a whole day or monthly parking coupon is used; or
(b)	the appropriate monthly charge under paragraph 5 has been paid and there has been no refund of the whole or any part of that charge. [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

Reduced charges

3A.—(1) This paragraph applies to the parking, at a parking place mentioned in paragraph 3, of a motor vehicle that is owned or driven by a person (called in this paragraph a specified person), who —

(a)

being an individual, has his place of residence in the housing estate where that parking place is located;

(b)

being an individual —

(i)	has his place of business or employment at a commercial property, industrial property or stall in the vicinity of that parking place; and
(ii)	is designated by the tenant, owner, lessee or licensee of that commercial property, industrial property or stall for the purposes of this paragraph; or

(c)

is a tenant, owner, lessee or licensee of a commercial property, industrial property or stall in the vicinity of that parking place.

(2) A person claiming to be a specified person in relation to a parking place must furnish to the satisfaction of the Deputy Superintendent proof that the person is a specified person in relation to that parking place.

(3) The Deputy Superintendent may allow a specified person to pay a reduced charge specified in the first column of the Second Schedule for the parking of a motor vehicle in a parking place specified opposite in the second column of that Schedule.

(4) The Deputy Superintendent’s power to allow a specified person to pay a reduced charge under sub‑paragraph (3) in relation to a parking place is subject to the following:

(a)	there must be no other person who has been allowed to pay a reduced charge in respect of the residential property, commercial property, industrial property or stall relating to the specified person;
(b)	the specified person is only allowed to pay the reduced charge in respect of one motor vehicle as identified by the Deputy Superintendent.

(5) Where a specified person paying a reduced charge under this paragraph ceases to be a specified person, that person must inform the Deputy Superintendent within 7 days after the cessation.

(6) Where a specified person who has paid a reduced charge under this paragraph for the parking of a motor vehicle in a parking place for any month of the year ceases, before or during that month, to be a specified person in relation to the parking place, that person must pay, within 14 days after a written demand by the Deputy Superintendent, the difference between —

(a)	the full amount of the charge payable for the parking of the motor vehicle in that parking place for that month as set out in the First Schedule; and
(b)	the reduced charge.

(7) In this paragraph, “motor vehicle” means —

(a)	a motor car; or
(b)	any other motor vehicle the weight of which unladen does not exceed 1,800 kilograms. [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

Charges for whole day or monthly parking coupons

4. There shall be payable for the whole day or monthly parking coupons in the Forms set out in the first column the charges set out opposite thereto in the second column:

First column

Second column

(a)

Form 4

(i)	In the case of a parking place described in any plan applicable to Parts 1 and 3 of the First Schedule, $20.

(ii)	In the case of a parking place described in any plan applicable to Parts 4 to 9, 14, 15, 16 and 31 to 36 of the First Schedule, $12.

(b)

Form 5

(i)	In the case of a parking place described in any plan applicable to Parts 1 and 3 of the First Schedule, $552.

(ii)	In the case of a parking place described in any plan applicable to Parts 4 to 9, 14, 15, 16 and 31 to 36 of the First Schedule, $360.

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Charges for concessionary season parking

5.—(1) The Deputy Superintendent may allow either of the following persons to pay the appropriate monthly charge for the parking of a motor cycle or motor scooter in the places and at the times described in sub-paragraph (3):

(a)	the registered owner of the motor cycle or motor scooter;
(b)	a person designated by the registered owner of the motor cycle or motor scooter for the purposes of this sub‑paragraph. [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

(2) The appropriate monthly charge referred to in sub‑paragraph (1) payable by a person referred to in sub‑paragraph (1)(a) or (b) is —

(a)

in the case of a motor cycle or motor scooter which occupies one motor cycle parking lot —

(i)	$20, if the person has not paid for that month in respect of the motor cycle or motor scooter any monthly charge set out in the First Schedule; or [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]
(ii)	if the person has paid for that month in respect of the motor cycle or motor scooter any monthly charge set out in the First Schedule, the difference between that monthly charge and $20; or [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

(b)

in the case of a motor cycle or motor scooter which occupies 2 motor cycle parking lots —

(i)	$40, if the person has not paid for that month in respect of the motor cycle or motor scooter any monthly charge set out in the First Schedule; or [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]
(ii)	if the person has paid for that month in respect of the motor cycle or motor scooter any monthly charge set out in the First Schedule, the difference between that monthly charge and $40. [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

(3) For the purposes of sub‑paragraph (1), the motor cycle or motor scooter (as the case may be) in respect of which the appropriate monthly charge has been paid may be parked in —

(a)	any parking place described in the plans (other than the plans relevant to Parts 10 and 38 of the First Schedule), during the operating hours of that parking place; and
(b)	any parking place mentioned in paragraph 5 of the Parking Places (Urban Redevelopment Authority) Order (O 2), during the operating hours of that parking place. [S 615/2016 wef 01/12/2016]

(4) No person shall be allowed to pay the appropriate monthly charge referred to in sub-paragraph (1) in respect of more than one motor cycle or motor scooter.

[S 893/2014 wef 01/01/2015]

[G.N. Nos. S 440/2000; S 418/2001; S 98/2002; S 276/2002; S 437/2002; S 58/2003; S 249/2004; S 413/2005; S 565/2005; S 580/2007; S 69/2009]

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