Singapore legislation

Clause 10

of Jurong Town Corporation (Amendment) Bill

Clause 10

Amendment of section 46

Subsection (1) of section 46 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting the following: —“(b)the persons to whom the flat, house or building may be sold and the persons who are allowed to stay in the flat, house or building, including the qualifications as to income, the minimum number in the family, citizenship and ownership of any other properties by all or any such persons;”;

(b)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (e);

(c)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (f) and substituting a semi-colon; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (f), the following paragraphs: —“(g)prescribing the fees to be charged by the Corporation for acting for any person in the sale, purchase transmission of the interest of a deceased owner, transfer, assignment, mortgage, discharge of a mortgage, reconveyance, or surrender, of a flat sold under the provisions of this Part or for acting for any surviving joint owner of such a flat in his application to register his entitlement consequent upon the death of the other joint owner; and

(h)

prescribing the penalty (such penalty, if unpaid, to constitute a debt due to the Corporation and be recoverable as such) to be paid by the owner of any flat, house or other building sold under the provisions of this Part or by any applicant for such flat, house or other building for non-observance or non-compliance with any of the restrictions, conditions or requirements of section 39, 45 or 45A of this Act, where the Corporation does not institute proceedings against him under any of the said sections.”.

Clause 10 — Jurong Town Corporation (Amendment) Bill