Housing and Development Act 1959 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Sale of Flats, Houses or Other Buildings
60. Establishment of management corporations
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The owners of flats in any building of the Board must, as soon as possible after they are directed by the Board in writing, establish a body corporate under the name of “The Management Corporation for flat numbers . . . of the Housing and Development Board building situate in Lot number . . . in Town Subdivision or Mukim . . .”.
flat
“flat” means a horizontal stratum of any building or part thereof, whether the stratum or part is on one or more levels or is partially or wholly below the surface of the ground;
The Board must not, without the prior approval in writing of the Minister and without consulting all the owners of the flats in any building, make any direction, under subsection (1), upon owners of the flats of the Board in any building.
Board
“Board” means the Housing and Development Board established under section 3;
Where a direction of the Board under subsection (1) is not carried out, the Board may, with the approval of the Minister, authorise a company, incorporated under the provisions of any written law for the time being in force relating to companies, to exercise the functions, duties and powers of a management corporation.
The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, revoke any authorisation granted to a company under subsection (3) without giving any reason.
Any authorisation under subsection (3), and any revocation under subsection (4), must be published in the Gazette.
A management corporation must be constituted by an order made by the Minister, which must be published in the Gazette.
Upon the constitution of a management corporation and so long as one exists in relation to a building, every owner of a flat in the building is —
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;
a member of the management corporation; and
entitled to such voting rights as may be prescribed.
A management corporation, constituted under subsection (5), has perpetual succession and may sue and be sued in its name and do all other matters and things incidental or appertaining to a body corporate and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.
A management corporation must establish and maintain a fund for administrative purposes sufficient in the opinion of the corporation for the control, management and administration of the common property, for the payment of any rent, rates and premiums of insurance and the discharge of any other obligations of the corporation.
common property
“common property” means so much of the developed land and all parts of the building as are not comprised in the flats in a building;
For the purposes of establishing and maintaining a fund in accordance with subsection (8), the management corporation may —
determine from time to time the amounts to be raised for the purposes referred to in that subsection;
raise amounts so determined by levying contributions on the owners in such proportions as may be prescribed; and
recover from any owner by an action in any court of competent jurisdiction any sum of money expended by the management corporation for rents, rates, premiums, maintenance or conservancy, or for repairs to the owner’s flat done by the management corporation or at its direction.
Subject to subsection (13), any contribution levied under subsection (9) is due and payable —
on the passing of a resolution to that effect and in accordance with the terms of that resolution; or
if the Board or a company (as the case may be) is performing the functions of a management corporation and has been vested with its powers, under section 61 on the service of a written notice and in accordance with the terms of that notice.
Any such contribution may be recovered by the management corporation or the company (as the case may be) in an action in any court of competent jurisdiction from the owner of the flat at the time when the resolution or notice (as the case may be) was passed or served and from the owner of the flat at the time when the action is instituted, both jointly and severally.
owner
“owner”, in relation to any property sold by the Board, includes a person who has purchased a leasehold interest in the property and also includes a purchaser under an agreement for a lease.
A certificate of the Board is conclusive evidence of the amount that may be due to the Board under subsection (10).
A management corporation must, on the application of any owner of a flat or any person authorised in writing by the owner, certify —
the amount determined as the contribution of the owner;
the manner in which that contribution is payable;
the extent to which the person’s contribution has been paid by the owner; and
the amount of any rates paid by the management corporation and not recovered by it.
In favour of any person dealing with the owner mentioned in subsection (13), such a certificate is conclusive evidence of the matters certified in the certificate.
A management corporation constituted under subsection (5) must not be wound up except by an order made by the Minister cancelling the order by which it was constituted.
Such an order must be published in the Gazette and must provide for the winding up of the management corporation and for its dissolution.[53