Singapore legislation
Section 126A
Section 126A
Application of section 126 to land vested in Housing and Development Board and HUDC dwellings
(1)
In the application of section 126 to any designated land which is vested in the Housing and Development Board —
any reference therein to the registered proprietor of the land shall be read as a reference to the Board;
any reference therein to the registered proprietors of flats shall be read as a reference to the owners of flats;
any reference therein to 25% of the total number of flats comprised in a building erected on a parcel of land shall be read as a reference to 75% of the total number of flats comprised in the building or buildings within a housing estate built on a parcel or parcels of land vested in the Board; and
any lease of such land issued by the Board under section 45(1) of the HUDC Housing Estates Act (Cap. 131) shall be deemed to have been surrendered by all the lessees to the Board on the day immediately before the date an instrument of transfer of such land is lodged under section 126(1).
(2)
In addition to its duties specified in section 126(9) and (10), the management corporation for any estate or interest in land transferred by the Board under an application under section 126(1) shall pay to the Board —
the cost of any estate or interest in land which was the subject of such transfer; and (b)the cost of any work carried out by the Board in accordance with the directions of any other public authority prior to such transfer.
(3)
The management corporation for any land transferred by the Board pursuant to an application under section 126(1) shall, upon a written demand by the Board to pay the costs referred to in subsection (2) or any part thereof and the expenses referred to in section 126(9), pay to the Board not later than 30 days of notice of the written demand those costs or that part thereof and those expenses.
(4)
If the costs or expenses referred to in subsection (3) are not paid by the management corporation on the date due, the management corporation shall be liable to pay interest in accordance with the rate specified by the Minister charged with the responsibility for national development, such interest, if unpaid, to constitute a debt due to the Board and recoverable as such.
(5)
For the purposes of paying the costs and interest referred to in subsections (2), (3) and (4), the management corporation shall determine the amount of contributions payable by the subsidiary proprietors who are members of the management corporation.
(6)
Any contributions so levied by the management corporation shall be deemed to be contributions levied under section 48(1)(r).
(7)
In this section and sections 126B and 129—
Definition
“Board” means the Housing and Development Board constituted under the Housing and Development Act (Cap. 129);
Definition
“designated land” means any land or housing estate vested in the Board which the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, designates as land to which section 126A applies;
Definition
“owner”, in relation to any flat, means —
a purchaser of a leasehold interest in the flat, including a purchaser under an agreement for a lease of the flat; or
in any other case, the Board.