Singapore legislation
Section 54
Section 54
Special provisions
(1)
Where —
a flat is sold by the Board to any person under the provisions of this Part; or
any estate or interest in such flat is —
subsequently transferred by or to any person with the written consent of the Board; or
surrendered to the Board,and a solicitor is not employed by the person to act for him or her in the transaction, the Board may by its duly authorised officer act for the person.
(2)
Where the Board acts for the person mentioned in subsection (1), then for the purposes of the registration of any instrument relating to the sale of the flat or the transaction in respect of the flat —
in the case of an instrument which is required to be registered under the Registration of Deeds Act 1988, section 11 of that Act does not apply if a duly authorised officer of the Board certifies that the flat has been sold under the provisions of this Part; and
in the case of an instrument which is required to be registered under the provisions of the Land Titles Act 1993, a certificate of an officer of the Board duly authorised by the Board to act for the person mentioned in subsection (1) is sufficient for the purposes of section 59(3) of that Act.
(3)
In this section —
Definition
“flat” means any flat, house or other building or living accommodation sold by the Board under the provisions of this Part;
Definition
“transfer”, with reference to a flat, means the conveyance, sale, purchase, assignment, mortgage, charge or the disposal in any manner of any estate or interest in a flat and includes a discharge of a mortgage, or a reconveyance, or the devolution of the rights of a deceased owner of a flat to another person, and “transferred” is to be construed accordingly.
(4)
Section 33 of the Legal Profession Act 1966 does not apply to any officer of the Board acting for any party to the transactions mentioned in subsection (1).[49