Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure or foundation connected to the foregoing;

“Certified Interpretation Plan” means a Certified Interpretation Plan prepared and certified by the competent authority under section 9;

“Collector” means any officer appointed by the President to be a Collector of Land Revenue or a Deputy Collector of Land Revenue;

“competent authority” means any competent authority appointed under section 3;

“conservation” means the preservation, enhancement or restoration of —

“conservation area” means the conservation area designated by the Minister under section 7;

“conservation authority” means such body or person as the Minister may appoint;

“holding” means any piece or parcel of land held or possessed under an instrument of title, capable of being registered under the Registration of Deeds Act [Cap. 269, 1989 Ed.] or, where applicable, under the Land Titles Act [Cap. 157], relating exclusively thereto;

“land” includes buildings and any estate or interest in or right over land;

“Master Plan” means the Master Plan including the written statement submitted to and approved by the Governor in Council on 5th August 1958 under the provisions of Part IV of the Singapore Improvement Ordinance, repealed by this Act, and the rules made thereunder and includes all alterations and additions thereto submitted to and approved by the Governor in Council or the Minister under those provisions and rules and the provisions of Part II of this Act and the rules made thereunder;

“Municipal Provident Fund” means the Municipal Provident Fund established by the City Council under the provisions of the Municipal Ordinance and continued and deemed to have been established under the Local Government Integration Act [Cap. 166];

“occupier” includes any person in actual occupation of land or premises or any person having the charge, management or control of the land or premises either on his own account or as an agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;

“owner”, in relation to land or premises, means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the land or premises whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver (not being appointed by or on behalf of a mortgagee) or who would receive the rent if the land or premises were let to a tenant and includes a mortgagee in possession;

“public street” means any street over which the public has a right of way and which is or has been usually repaired or maintained by the Government or which has been conveyed to the Government or has become vested in the Government under this Act or under any written law relating to local government for the time being in force or in any other manner;

“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way, and also the way over any public bridge, and includes also any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to two or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, drains and ditches at the side of any street shall be deemed to be part of that street;

“use”, in relation to land, does not include the use of land by the carrying out of any building or other operations thereon;

“written statement of the Master Plan” means that part of the Master Plan which includes a summary of the main proposals of the Master Plan with such descriptive matter as the competent authority considers necessary to illustrate the proposals of the Master Plan or as the Minister may from time to time direct for that purpose.

For the purposes of this Act, a person is said to subdivide land if, by any deed or instrument, he conveys, assigns, demises or otherwise disposes of any part of the land in such a manner that the part so disposed of becomes capable of being registered under the Registration of Deeds Act [Cap. 269, 1989 Ed.] or in the case of registered land being included in a separate folio of the land-register under the Land Titles Act [Cap. 157], and “subdivide” and “subdivision” shall be construed accordingly:Provided that a lease for a period not exceeding 7 years without the option of renewal or purchase shall not be deemed to be a disposal within the meaning of this definition.

In any other written law and in any other document whatsoever unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the planning functions of the Singapore Improvement Trust shall be construed as a reference to the planning functions of the competent authority.