Singapore legislation
Section 136
Section 136
Regulations
(1)
The Minister may make regulations for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
(2)
Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:
providing for proper standards of management and maintenance in respect of buildings, any common property and limited common property;
(aa)regulating the use and maintenance of lifts and escalators, including prescribing —
requirements for periodic inspections of lifts and escalators;
the duties of an owner of a lift or escalator and of any person who is in charge of or engaged in the maintenance of a lift or escalator, such as the keeping of records and the obtaining of a permit to operate a lift or escalator;
circumstances where the operation of a lift or escalator must be stopped, permanently or temporarily; and
the procedures and duties of an owner of a lift or escalator, and of any other person, in the event of any incident or accident occurring in connection with any lift or escalator, and if the incident or accident causes loss of life or serious personal injury or involves any breakage, distortion or damage to any load‑bearing or safety‑critical component or part of the lift or escalator;
(ab)applying for approval from the Commissioner under section 18(1) of the maximum rate of maintenance charges for a development;
the nomination and election of members of the council of a management corporation or the executive committee of a subsidiary management corporation;
the minimum amount of contributions payable by subsidiary proprietors towards any sinking fund of a management corporation or subsidiary management corporation;
the investment of moneys belonging to a sinking fund of a management corporation or subsidiary management corporation;
the provision of parking places for the exclusive use of residents of lots in subdivided buildings used for both residential and commercial purposes;
the fees to be paid to management corporations or subsidiary management corporations for anything to be done under this Act;
the fees to be paid in respect of any matter or thing required for the purposes of this Act, including approvals, permits or licences required under this Act and the refund and remission, whether in whole or in part, of the fees;
the practice and procedure of the Strata Titles Boards; (ha)providing for or with respect to the means of voting (other than in person) at a general meeting that may be adopted by a management corporation or subsidiary management corporation, and the procedures for voting by those means;
any other matter which by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to any provision of this Act.
(3)
Regulations made under this section may make different provisions for different types of buildings, common property and limited common property.
(4)
The Minister may, in making any regulations under subsection (1), provide that —
any contravention of any provision of the regulations relating to the maintenance of lifts and escalators, or incidents or accidents involving lifts or escalators, shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $20,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both; or
any contravention of any provision of any other regulations made under that subsection shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $5,000.
(5)
Any regulations made under subsection (1) relating to the maintenance of lifts and escalators may apply, adopt or incorporate by reference —
either wholly or partially;
with or without modification; or
either specifically or by reference,any matter contained in any code, standard, rule, requirement, specification or other document, as in force or published at a particular time or as in force or published from time to time, which relates to any matter that those regulations deal with.
(6)
Unless otherwise provided in the regulations made under subsection (1), every material so applied, adopted or incorporated under subsection (5), and every amendment to any material so incorporated by reference under subsection (5) that is made by the person or organisation originating the material is, subject to subsections (7) and (8), to be treated as being a part of those regulations.
(7)
Where any material mentioned in subsection (5) is applied, adopted or incorporated by reference in any regulations made under subsection (1) relating to the maintenance of lifts and escalators, the Minister must give notice in the Gazette stating —
that the material is incorporated in those regulations, and the date on which the relevant provision in those regulations was made;
that the material is available for inspection without charge during working hours;
the place where the material can be inspected;
that copies of the material can be purchased, and the place where the material can be purchased; and
if copies of the material are available in other ways, the details of where or how the material can be accessed or obtained.
(8)
In addition, the Minister must cause a copy of every material applied, adopted or incorporated in regulations made under subsection (1) relating to the maintenance of lifts and escalators by reference under subsection (5), to be made available for inspection by members of the public without charge at any of the offices of the Building and Construction Authority during normal office hours.
(9)
In this section, “modification” includes omissions, additions and substitutions.