| Execution of grant or lease of State land |
| 5. Every grant or lease of State land shall be executed under the public seal of Singapore, and such grant or lease shall be void and of no effect unless the said seal shall have been affixed to the instrument. |
| Special covenants and conditions |
6.—(1) In all cases in which State land is to be granted or leased on special covenants and conditions, the special covenants and conditions shall be endorsed on or inserted in the title and shall be signed and sealed by the grantee or lessee.| (2) Special covenants and conditions in relation to buildings on or to the use of alienated State land may be embodied in separate agreements. |
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| Persons to whom State lands shall not be granted or leased |
7. No State land shall be granted or leased to —| (a) | any person who is an undischarged bankrupt; | | (b) | any body corporate against which a winding-up order has been made and has not been stayed; or | | (c) | any person or body corporate against whom or which the Government has any claim by way of rents, fees, property tax or otherwise on account of land which has been cleared or occupied at any time by him or by his direction. |
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8.—(1) Where State land is to be granted or leased on trust, the grantee or lessee thereof shall execute and register a declaration of trust at the time of the issue of the title.| (2) Where a title is to be issued in the names of two or more persons, the nature of their tenancy or interest shall be stated therein. |
| (3) Where a title is to be issued to a person as executor or administrator of a deceased person, he shall be so described in the title. |
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| 9. Except where the Collector of Land Revenue otherwise decides, no applicant shall be allowed to enter into occupation of the land applied for by him until he has deposited with the Collector of Land Revenue a sum sufficient to cover such sum as premium (if any), rent, fees or other dues as the Collector of Land Revenue shall decide. |
| 10. The title ordinarily to be issued shall be a lease for a term not exceeding 99 years, except that where land is not capable of independent development and is required for development with the applicant’s adjacent land, the title to be issued may be the same as that of the applicant’s land. |
| Publication of notice for public auctions or public tenders |
11.—(1) When the sale of State land by public auction or public tender has been authorised, the Collector of Land Revenue, or his agent authorised in that behalf, shall exhibit in his office and publish in the Gazette a notice of sale describing the land and stating —| (a) | the place, date and time of the sale, in the case of a sale by public auction, or the closing date and time, in the case of a sale by public tender; and | | (b) | the conditions of the sale. |
| (2) An auctioneer may be appointed by the Collector of Land Revenue or his agent authorised in that behalf to conduct a public auction, and the costs thereof shall be recovered from the proceeds of sale or met from any available funds. |
| (3) A deposit of not less than 5% on the price bid or, where an upset price is demanded, 25% on the price bid shall be paid and the Collector of Land Revenue shall give a receipt for the same. |
| (4) The balance of the sale price and charges shall be paid within one month from the date of sale or within such further period as the Collector of Land Revenue may, on such terms and conditions as he considers fit, allow, failing which, the sale shall be void and of no effect and the amount deposited shall be forfeited to the Government. |
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| Consideration for alienation of State land |
12.—(1) The consideration for the alienation of State land shall be a premium or an annual rent or both.| (2) The Minister may, in his discretion, permit the payment of the premium by instalments on such terms and conditions as he considers fit, having regard to the circumstances of each case. |
| (3) The Minister may, in any case in which he thinks fit, waive wholly or partly the payment of any annual rent for such period as he thinks fit. |
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| 13. All rents and other sums payable under the Act shall be payable in advance without demand on 1st January in each year. |
| Payments to Collector at Land Office |
| 14. Every sum payable under the Act shall be paid to the Collector of Land Revenue at the Land Office or at such other place as he may from time to time appoint. |
| Application under section 13 of Act |
| 15. Every application to the President to accept a surrender of any Crown grant, State grant, Crown lease or State lease under section 13 of the Act shall be in writing and shall be addressed to the Collector of Land Revenue. |
| 16. Where the instrument of title to be surrendered is a grant issued under the Act, the State Lands Ordinance or the Crown Lands Ordinance 1886 (Ord. 2/1886), and is produced by the person named therein as the grantee, the Collector of Land Revenue shall call upon the grantee to prepare a deed of surrender, a transfer instrument or such other document as the Collector of Land Revenue may require and shall accept the same when it has been executed by the grantee, and on payment of the statutory charges shall prepare new grants of the land in parcels. |
| Grants or leases issued before 1st March 1886 produced by person other than grantee |
| 17. Where the instrument of the title to be surrendered is a grant or lease issued before 1st March 1886, or is a grant issued under the Act, the State Lands Ordinance or the Crown Lands Ordinance 1886, and produced by some person other than the person named therein as the grantee thereof, the applicant shall, if required by the Collector of Land Revenue to do so, lodge with the Collector of Land Revenue an abstract of his title verified by statutory declaration, and shall also deposit with the Collector of Land Revenue a sum sufficient to cover the costs and fees payable in respect of the investigation of title. |
| 18. The instrument of title to be issued in lieu of a surrendered grant or lease shall be a grant or lease under the Act and such grant or lease shall, unless otherwise sanctioned by the Collector of Land Revenue, be made out in the name of the person who executed the surrender. |
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