Singapore legislation

Clause 7

Amendment of section 54

Section 54 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsections:“(3) Any temporary permit, permission or other similar document issued in respect of a temporary building under any written law relating to building control in force before 1st February 1960 shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have lapsed or expired; and for the purposes of this section, “temporary building” means a building which is required for a limited time or constructed of short-lived materials.(3A) The powers conferred on the Building Authority by this Act may be exercised in respect of —

(a)

any building erected in contravention of, or deemed to be unauthorised under, any written law relating to building control in force before 1st May 1989; and

(b)

any temporary building in respect of which no temporary permit, permission or other similar document issued under any such written law relating to building control or this Act is in force,and such building shall be deemed unauthorised for the purposes of this Act.”.

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