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COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 · Updated to 1 Jul 2026 · Part 2A · Rental Relief and Related Measures

19X. Regulations for this Part

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2020.

(1)

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.

(2)

Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may —

(a)

provide for different amounts of the rental relief or additional rental relief for different tenants (or classes of tenants) and different prescribed properties (or classes of prescribed properties);

(b)

prescribe the methods for computing the rental relief and additional rental relief, including by providing different methods for computing such reliefs for different tenants (or classes of tenants) and different prescribed properties (or classes of prescribed properties);

(ba)

provide for different prescribed periods under section 19H or 19J for the rent payable for —

(i)

different types of prescribed property; or

(ii)

different parts of a prescribed property;

(c)

provide for different prescribed periods in section 19P(2)(d)(i) and prescribed amounts in section 19P(5) for different PTOs (or classes of PTOs);

(d)

prescribe the forms to be used and the information or documents to be provided for the purposes of this Part;

(e)

provide for the procedure and practice for a proceeding before a rental relief assessor, including requiring the proceedings to be held in private and the treatment of confidential information;

(f)

require a party to a proceeding before a rental relief assessor to make a statutory declaration in support of any matter for the purpose of the proceeding;

(g)

provide for the manner in which the Registrar or a rental relief assessor is to exercise his or her functions or perform his or her duties;

(h)

provide for the extension by the Registrar or a rental relief assessor of any time within which any document is to be filed or provided; and

(i)

provide for the manner of issue or service of any document and when a document is deemed served or received.

(3)

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.

(4)

The 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.

(5)

Regulations made under this section for the purpose of prescribing the amount of rent waived under section 19H(1) or 19J(1) in relation to any prescribed property, the criteria for a PTO or the additional criteria that a PTO is to satisfy for the additional rental relief, may be made to operate retrospectively to a date before the issue of the notice of cash grant pertaining to a PTO of that property but not earlier than 31 July 2020.

(6)

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 19H or 19J and the regulations in force before the date the retrospective regulations were made.

Terms defined in this Act

lease agreement
Defined · s 19B
“lease agreement”, for any property, includes a lease or licence for that property;
Open s 19B
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)
Open s 2
notice of cash grant
Defined · s 19B
“notice of cash grant” means a notice issued under section 19F by the Authority to the owner of a prescribed property;
Open s 19B
party
Defined · s 41
“party” means a party to a contract, and “parties” is construed accordingly;
Open s 41
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;
Open s 19B
property
Defined · s 19B
“property” includes any part of the property;
Open s 19B
PTO
Defined · s 19B
“prescribed tenant-occupier” or “PTO” means a tenant of any prescribed property who satisfies the prescribed criteria and who is an occupier of the property;
Open s 19B
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;
Open s 2
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;
Open s 19B
rental relief assessor
Defined · s 19B
“rental relief assessor” means a person appointed to the panel of rental relief assessors under section 19L;
Open s 19B