Singapore legislation
Clause 11
Clause 11
Amendment of section 36
Section 36 of the Planning Act is amended —
by deleting paragraph (c) of subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:“(c)any authorised development of that land which satisfies any one or more of the following criteria:
development charge, where payable in respect of the authorised development, has been paid;
no development charge is payable in respect of the authorised development by reason of any exemption or remission under this Act or the repealed Act;
development charge is not payable in respect of the authorised development under the written law in force when the development was authorised.”;
by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsections:“(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1)(c), any development of land, being a development in respect of which no development charge is payable by reason of any exemption or remission under this Act or the repealed Act, shall be disregarded for the purpose of determining the Development Baseline for the land if —
any term of the exemption or remission provides that the development shall be disregarded for that purpose; or
any term of the exemption or remission has ceased to be or is not complied with.(3A) Notwithstanding subsection (1)(c), any development of land for use as a hotel or part of a hotel authorised by the grant of written permission by the competent authority under the repealed Act between 18th April 1968 and 31st December 1969 (both dates inclusive) on any prescribed land shall be disregarded for the purpose of determining the Development Baseline for the land if —
the use of the development as a hotel or part of a hotel has ceased; or
the application for planning permission or conservation permission being considered by the competent authority for the land is for development of the land for a use other than as a hotel.”;
by inserting, immediately after subsection (7), the following subsections:“(7A) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, in determining both the Development Baseline and Development Ceiling for any land, any development of that land authorised by a written permission granted for a specified period not exceeding 10 years shall be disregarded.(7B) For the purposes of subsection (7A) —
the fact that the period specified for a written permission granted for a development may be extended by the competent authority shall not be taken into consideration in determining whether the written permission is granted for a specified period not exceeding 10 years; and
where the competent authority extends the period for which a written permission is granted for a development, the extension shall be deemed to be a separate written permission granted for the period of the extension specified by the competent authority.”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “In this section” in subsection (8), the words “, unless the context otherwise requires”; and
by inserting, immediately before the definition of “material date” in subsection (8), the following definition:“ “authorised”, in relation to any development of land, means any development of that land —
authorised under this Act or the repealed Act; or
effected or carried out pursuant to any written approval granted under any written law before 1st February 1960;”.