Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Amendment of section 2
Section 2 of the Housing and Development Ordinance, 1959 (hereinafter in this Ordinance referred to as the “principal Ordinance”), is hereby amended —
by deleting the definition of “building” appearing in subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“ “building” includes any house, flat, hut, shed, roofed enclosure or other accommodation, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging gate, post, pillar, paling, frame hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landingstage or bridge, or any structure or foundation connected to the foregoing;”;
by inserting immediately after the definition of “Collector” appearing in subsection (1) thereof the following new definitions: —“ “common property” means so much of the land and all parts of the building as are not comprised in the flats in a building;“developed land” means any land of the Board upon which a building has been erected;“flat” means a horizontal stratum of any building or part thereof, whether such stratum or part is on one or more levels or is partially or wholly below the surface of the ground;”;
by inserting immediately after subsection (1) thereof the following new section: —“(2) References in this Ordinance to a flat, house or other living accommodation shall be construed to include references to the land appurtenant to such flat, house or other living accommodation.”; and
by renumbering the existing subsection (2) thereof as subsection (3).