Housing and Development Act 1959 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Functions, Duties, Properties and Officers of Board
26. Power to purchase, sell, lease and exchange lands, etc.
Feedback & supportThe Board may, with the Minister’s approval, purchase or lease any land required for any of the purposes of this Act.
Board
“Board” means the Housing and Development Board established under section 3;
The Board may, with the approval of the prescribed approving authority (except for monthly leases), sell, surrender, lease or exchange any land or building belonging to the Board, either in block or in parcels as may be found most convenient or advantageous.
Subject to section 37, the Board may lease from month to month any land or building belonging to the Board at such rent and upon such terms and conditions as the Board thinks fit.[24
building
“building” includes any house, flat, hut, shed, roofed enclosure or other accommodation, whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging gate, post, pillar, paling, frame hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure or foundation connected to the foregoing;