COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 · Updated to 1 Jul 2026 · Part 12 · Rental Waiver Due to COVID-19 Event in 2021
107. Regulations for this Part
Last amended by an amending law of 2021.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
The Minister may make regulations for or with respect to any matter that is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Part.
Minister
“Minister” means —(a)except as provided in paragraphs (b) to (d), the Minister charged with the responsibility for law;(b)for the purposes of Part 6 — the Minister charged with the responsibility for finance;(c)for the purposes of Part 7 — the Minister charged with the responsibility for health; and (d)for the purposes of Parts 8A and 8B — the Minister charged with the responsibility for national development; (e)
Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may —
provide for different amounts of the rental waiver for different tenants (or classes of tenants) and different prescribed properties (or classes of prescribed properties);
prescribe the methods for computing the rental waiver, including by providing different methods for computing such waiver for different tenants (or classes of tenants) and different prescribed properties (or classes of prescribed properties);
prescribe the forms to be used and the information or documents to be provided for the purposes of this Part;
provide for the procedure and practice for a proceeding before a rental waiver assessor, including requiring the proceedings to be held in private and the treatment of confidential information;
require a party to a proceeding before a rental waiver assessor to make a statutory declaration in support of any matter for the purpose of the proceeding;
provide for the manner in which the Registrar or a rental waiver assessor is to exercise his or her functions or perform his or her duties;
provide for the extension by the Registrar or a rental waiver assessor of any time within which any document is to be filed or provided; and
provide for the manner of issue or service of any document and when a document is deemed served or received.
Any regulation made under this section may make provision for or in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating by reference, with or without modification, any regulations made under section 19 or a part of any such regulations, as in force at a particular time or from time to time.
Regulations made under this section may provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $5,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both.
Regulations made under this section for the purpose of prescribing the amount of rent waived under section 94(1)(a) in relation to any prescribed property, or the prescribed criteria for rental waiver, may be made to operate retrospectively to a date before the service date mentioned in section 94(1) for a tenant of that property.
rent
“rent” includes licence fee and any matter that is prescribed as being rent, but excludes any service charge and maintenance charge and any other matter that is prescribed as not being rent;
Regulations made under this section may, in respect of any retrospective regulations in subsection (5), also provide for the recovery by a party to a lease agreement of an amount from the other party that was paid to or withheld by the other party in reliance on section 94 and the regulations in force before the date the retrospective regulations were made.
party
“party” means a party to a contract, and “parties” is construed accordingly;
Terms defined in this Act
lease agreement
Defined · s 19B“lease agreement”, for any property, includes a lease or licence for that property;
Minister
Defined · s 2“Minister” means —(a)except as provided in paragraphs (b) to (d), the Minister charged with the responsibility for law;(b)for the purposes of Part 6 — the Minister charged with the responsibility for finance;(c)for the purposes of Part 7 — the Minister charged with the responsibility for health; and (d)for the purposes of Parts 8A and 8B — the Minister charged with the responsibility for national development; (e)
party
Defined · s 41“party” means a party to a contract, and “parties” is construed accordingly;
prescribed property
Defined · s 19B“prescribed property” means any prescribed non-residential property or any property belonging to a prescribed class of non-residential property, and includes any part of such property;
Registrar
Defined · s 2“Registrar” means the Registrar of assessors appointed under section 10(1), and includes any Deputy Registrar of assessors exercising the functions of the Registrar;
rent
Defined · s 19B“rent” includes licence fee and any matter that is prescribed as being rent, but excludes any service charge and maintenance charge and any other matter that is prescribed as not being rent;
rental waiver assessor
Defined · s 86“rental waiver assessor” means a person appointed to the panel of rental waiver assessors under section 89;
tenant
Defined · s 19B“tenant”, for any property, includes a lessee, sub-lessee, licensee or sub-licensee for that property, but excludes a person or class of persons prescribed as not being a tenant or tenants.