Clause 10

by deleting subsection (1A) and substituting the following subsection:“(1A) A poll conducted in connection with any proposal to carry out special upgrading works within a building, or in relation to more than one building, in a precinct shall be a poll of the prescribed owners of prescribed flats within the building or buildings, as the case may be, being flats the occupants of which directly benefit from the special upgrading works.”; and

by deleting subsection (5A) and substituting the following subsection:“(5A) The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, carry out special upgrading works within a building, or in relation to more than one building, within a precinct if, and only if —

it appears from a poll of the owners referred to in subsection (1A) that 75% or more of the total value in votes of such owners within the building or buildings, as the case may be, have been cast in favour of the proposal to carry out special upgrading works within that building or in relation to those buildings; and

where the proposal is for the special upgrading works to be carried out within or in relation to any building in the precinct together with any general upgrading works within the precinct, it also appears from a poll of prescribed owners referred to in subsection (2) that 75% or more of the total value in votes of all such owners of all flats within the precinct have been cast in favour of the proposal to carry out the general upgrading works in the precinct.”.