Singapore legislation
Section 71
Section 71
Commissioner may require declaration, etc.
(1)
The Commissioner may require any person to produce evidence by way of statutory declaration or otherwise for any purpose connected with the administration of this Act.
(2)
The Commissioner may by notice require any person to provide to the Commissioner by a specified time an appropriate valuation of any property that is the subject of an instrument (including any underlying property of a PHE within the meaning of section 23) for the purposes of determining the liability or the extent of the liability of the instrument to duty.
(3)
A person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with the notice in subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.
(4)
In subsection (2), an appropriate valuation is a valuation by a valuer who is independent of any party to the instrument, and has qualifications and experience that are relevant to the valuation sought by the Commissioner.