Parking Places (Housing and Development Board) Order 1997

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No. S 274

Parking Places Act

(Chapter 214)

Parking Places (Housing and Development Board) Order 1997

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 4 and 9 of the Parking Places Act, the Minister for Communications hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Parking Places (Housing and Development Board) Order 1997 and shall come into operation on 6th June 1997.

Definitions

2. In this Order —

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

“monthly parking coupon” means a parking coupon in Form 13 or 14 set out in the Second Schedule to the Parking Places (Coupon Parking) Rules;

“wholeday parking coupon” means a parking coupon in Form 5, 6, 7 or 8 set out in the Second Schedule to the Parking Places (Coupon Parking) Rules (R 3).

Parking places

3.—(1) The roads and lands set out in the Schedule are hereby authorised for use as parking places.

(2) Copies of the Plans referred to in the Schedule are available for inspection by the public free of charge during normal office hours at the office of the Deputy Superintendent of Car Parks (Housing and Development Board), Block 187, Toa Payoh Lorong 6, #02-348, Singapore 310187.

Charges

4.—(1) Except where a wholeday or monthly parking coupon is used, the charges set out in each Part of the Schedule shall be payable for the parking of vehicles in any of the parking places specified in that Part.

(2) A person who has his place of residence in a housing estate where any of the parking places specified in Parts I, II and IV of the Schedule are located may, at the discretion of the Superintendent, be allowed to pay a reduced charge of $75 per month for the parking of a motor car or a motor vehicle the weight of which unladen does not exceed 1,500 kilograms in any of those parking places.

(3) A person who has his place of residence in a housing estate where any of the parking places specified in Parts III and V of the Schedule are located may, at the discretion of the Superintendent, be allowed to pay a reduced charge of $55 per month for the parking of a motor car or a motor vehicle the weight of which unladen does not exceed 1,500 kilograms in any of those parking places.

(4) Where a person has been allowed to pay the reduced charge under sub-paragraph (2) or (3) for the parking of a vehicle in a parking place for any month of the year but who does not in fact have his place of residence in a housing estate where the parking places are located throughout the whole period of that month, he shall upon demand in writing by the Superintendent pay, within 14 days of such demand, the difference between the full amount of the charge payable for the parking of a vehicle in the parking place per month as set out in the Schedule and the reduced charge.

(5) No person referred to in sub-paragraph (2) or (3) shall be allowed the reduced charge for more than one vehicle.

(6) Where 2 or more persons referred to in sub-paragraph (2) or (3) have their place of residence in the same dwelling unit, only one of such persons shall be allowed the reduced charge and for one vehicle only.

(7) A person who pursuant to sub-paragraph (2) or (3) has been allowed the reduced charge shall inform the Superintendent of any change in his place of residence within 7 days of such change.

(8) Where a person does not have his address, in a housing estate, registered with the National Registration Office, he shall, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), furnish to the Superintendent proof of his place of residence in such housing estate.

(9) In this paragraph —

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

“place of residence” means the address of a person in a housing estate where the parking places are located and the address is registered with the National Registration Office.

[S 81/98 wef 01/03/1998]

Charges for wholeday or monthly parking coupons

5. There shall be payable for the wholeday 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)	Forms 5 and 6

$ 15

(b)	Forms 7 and 8

$ 9

(c)

Form 13

$270

(d)

Form 14

$420.

Revocation

6. The Parking Places (Housing and Development Board) Order (O 1) is revoked.

Made this 29th day of May 1997.

TEO MING KIAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Communications,
Singapore.

[MINCOM LTA 271-04 Vol. 5; AG/SL/2/93 Vol. 2 (HDB)]

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