Singapore legislation
Clause 6
Clause 6
Amendment of section 65C
Section 65C of the principal Act is amended —
by deleting the words “specified upgrading works, if any” in the last line of subsection (1)(a) and substituting the words “(if any) specified upgrading works and special upgrading works”;
by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:“(1A) A poll conducted in connection with any proposal to carry out special upgrading works in any building in a precinct shall be a poll of such owners of such flats within the building as may be prescribed, being flats the occupants of which directly benefit from the special upgrading works.”; and
by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(5A) Where it appears from a poll conducted under subsection (1A) that 75% or more of the total value in votes of such owners of flats within a building in a precinct as are referred to in that subsection have been cast in favour of any proposal to carry out special upgrading works in the building, the Board may, with the approval of the Minister, carry out those special upgrading works in that building within that precinct.”.