Valuation Review Board (Appeals Procedure) Regulations

Property Tax Act

(Chapter 254, Section 68)

Rg 2

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[14th December 1979]

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Valuation Review Board (Appeals Procedure) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations —

“Board” means the Valuation Review Board constituted under section 23 of the Act and includes any committee of the Board;

“clerk” means the clerk to the Board appointed under section 25 of the Act.

Notice of appeal

3.—(1) Every notice of appeal lodged under section 29 of the Act shall —

(a)	be in the form set out in the First Schedule; [S 568/2001 wef 01/12/2001] [S 22/95 wef 20/01/1995]
(b)	be signed by the appellant or his authorised representative; [S 568/2001 wef 01/12/2001]
(c)	be lodged with the clerk, within 21 days after the service of the written notice of the decision of the Chief Assessor or the Comptroller made under section 20A, 22 or 38 of the Act, as the case may be; and [S 568/2001 wef 01/12/2001] [S 209/2003 wef 01/01/2003]
(d)	be accompanied by the appropriate fee specified in the Second Schedule.

(2) Except with the leave of the Board, an appellant shall not be permitted during the hearing of the appeal to rely on any grounds of appeal other than those stated in the notice of appeal lodged under section 29 of the Act.

Number of appeal

4.—(1) Upon receipt of the notice of appeal, the clerk shall affix to the notice an official stamp showing the date on which the notice was received and shall enter the appeal in the list and assign a number thereto, which shall thereafter constitute the title of the appeal.

(2) The clerk shall, after assigning the number of the appeal, inform the appellant of the title of the appeal and shall forward a copy of the notice of appeal to the Chief Assessor or the Comptroller, as the case may be.

Statement of contentions or facts

5.—(2) The Board may require an appellant to submit and furnish to the Board, within such time as the Board may determine, a statement setting out the contentions or particulars of any facts which the appellant intends to rely on during the hearing of the appeal, including particulars of comparable rents or sales.

[S 209/2003 wef 01/01/2003]

(3) Every statement referred to in paragraph (2) shall be signed by the appellant or his duly authorised representative and except with the leave of the Board the appellant shall not be permitted during the hearing of the appeal to rely on any contentions or facts other than those set out in that statement.

(4) Upon receipt of the statement referred to in paragraph (2), the Board shall forward a copy thereof to the Chief Assessor or the Comptroller, as the case may be, and may require the Chief Assessor or the Comptroller, as the case may be, to submit to the Board within such time as the Board may determine, a response to the statement.

[S 209/2003 wef 01/01/2003]

Meetings of Board

6. The Board shall meet at such places and times as the Chairman may from time to time determine.

Procedure

7. Subject to the provisions of the Act and these Regulations, the procedure at the hearing of any proceedings shall be such as the Board may determine.

Attendance of witness

8.—(1) Any person requiring a witness to be called to give evidence before the Board shall, at least 14 clear days before the day fixed for the hearing, notify the clerk.

(2) Upon receipt of the notification referred to in paragraph (1), the clerk shall request the Registrar of the Supreme Court or the Registrar of the Subordinate Courts to issue a writ of subpoena ad testificandum or duces tecum, as the case may require, under Order 38 of the Rules of Court (Cap. 322, R 5).

(3) The request of the clerk to the Registrar shall specify the documents (if any) that the witness is to produce to the Board.

(4) The person requiring the witness to attend before the Board shall pay to the clerk the amount of —

(a)	any fees required by the Court for issue of the writ of subpoena; and
(b)	any expenses incurred by the Court in effecting service of the writ of subpoena.

(5) The clerk may, at the time the notification referred to in paragraph (1) is made, require the person referred to in paragraph (4) to deposit with him a reasonable sum for the purpose of covering the fees and expenses referred to in paragraph (4).

Evidence

9. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations and of the Evidence Act (Cap. 97) and any other written law relating to evidence —

(a)	the evidence in chief of a witness who will appear as a witness for cross-examination may be given in the form of an affidavit; and
(b)	any fact required to be proved at the hearing of an appeal before the Board shall otherwise be proved by the examination of witnesses orally.

Record of proceedings

10. The clerk shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Board in such form as the Chairman may direct.

Record to be signed

11. The records of the proceedings at the hearing of any appeal shall be signed by the Chairman or the member of the Board who presided at the hearing of the appeal.

[S 811/2004 wef 31/12/2004]

Adjournments

12. The Board may adjourn a hearing at any time.

Further evidence

13. The Board may at any time before delivering or conveying its decision call for such further evidence or explanations from either party to be given in the presence of the other party as it may consider necessary.

Adjournments for purpose of deliberation

14.—(1) The Board may on the conclusion of the hearing of an appeal adjourn for any period of time for the purpose of considering its decision.

(2) A decision of the Board may be conveyed to the parties concerned by the clerk by rendering a written copy of the decision to them duly signed by the Chairman and members of the Board who heard the appeal or, at the discretion of the Board, it may be delivered orally before the parties by the Chairman or in the absence of the Chairman by any member of the Board who heard the appeal and it shall not be necessary for all the members of the Board who heard the appeal to reassemble merely for the purpose of delivering a decision.

(3) For the purposes of an appeal to the High Court under section 35 of the Act, the time for appeal runs —

(a)	in the case where the decision is delivered orally, from the date the decision is delivered; and
(b)	in all other cases, from the date of the written decision or such other day as the Board decides.

15. [Deleted by S 568/2001 wef 01/12/2001]

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