Singapore legislation
Section 39
Section 39
Transfer of properties, liabilities and obligations, etc.
(1)
On 1 May 1982, all the estates and interests of —
the Housing and Urban Development Company in the lands described in the First Schedule; and
the Jurong Town Corporation in the lands described in the Second Schedule,vest in the Board without further assurance subject to the same conditions of tenure incident thereto and to any subsisting encumbrances.
(2)
The Board has the power to execute any instrument under the Land Titles Act 1993, disposing of or creating an interest in any of the lands so vested in the Board (called in this Act transferred properties).
(3)
On 1 May 1982, any land described in the Second Schedule which immediately before that date was held in trust for the Jurong Town Corporation is to be held upon the same trust for the Board.
(4)
Without limiting subsection (1), on 1 May 1982, all the rights and liabilities of the Housing and Urban Development Company or the Jurong Town Corporation in connection with or pertaining to the transferred properties are transferred to the Board.
(5)
All proceedings in respect of the transferred properties by or against the Housing and Urban Development Company or the Jurong Town Corporation which are pending on 1 May 1982 may be continued, completed and enforced by or against the Board.
(6)
Every agreement relating to any of the transferred properties to which the Housing and Urban Development Company or the Jurong Town Corporation was a party immediately before 1 May 1982, whether or not of such nature that the rights and liabilities thereunder could be assigned, has effect as from that date as if —
the Board had been a party to the agreement; and
for any reference to the Housing and Urban Development Company or the Jurong Town Corporation there were substituted in respect of anything to be done on or after 1 May 1982 a reference to the Board.
(7)
Any flat, house or other living accommodation which has been built on any land vested in the Board under subsection (1)(b) and which has been sold by the Jurong Town Corporation under Part IV of the Jurong Town Corporation Act 1968 as in force before 1 January 2018 is deemed to be a flat, house or other living accommodation sold by the Board under Part 4 of this Act.
(8)
In all applications made to and registered with the Jurong Town Corporation prior to 1 May 1982 for the purchase of any flat, house or other living accommodation mentioned in subsection (7), any reference to the Jurong Town Corporation is to be read as if it were a reference to the Board.[33