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Land Titles Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 15 · Statutory Acquisition and Sale

143. Compulsory acquisition of registered land

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2014.

(1)

For the purposes of this section, “public authority” means the Government, the Collector, and any other person, corporation or body, authorised or empowered by any written law to acquire land compulsorily.

(2)

Where registered land has been acquired by any public authority otherwise than by purchase or agreement, an instrument of acquisition in the approved form, executed by that authority or by an officer appointed by the authority in that behalf, may be lodged with the Registrar.

(3)

The Registrar need not be concerned to inquire into the regularity or validity of the acquisition, but upon registration thereof the estate or interest acquired vests in the public authority according to the tenor of the instrument of acquisition.

(4)

On registration of an instrument of acquisition, the Registrar must cancel the registration of all encumbrances including any mortgage, charge or lease thereby overreached and must, if so requested, cancel the folio (and the certificate of title thereof if produced for that purpose) and must create a new folio for the estate or interest not affected by the acquisition.

(5)

Whenever a public authority that has become the proprietor of registered land so requests, the Registrar must endorse on the relevant folio a notification to the effect that the land has become vested in the Government as State land, and has ceased to be subject to the provisions of this Act.

Terms defined in s 4

approved form
Defined · s 4
“approved form” means any form approved by the Registrar for the purposes of any of the provisions of this Act and includes an electronic form produced by making an electronic copy, image or reproduction of a written instrument;
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Authority
Defined · s 4
“Authority” means the Singapore Land Authority established under the Singapore Land Authority Act 2001;
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Collector
Defined · s 4
“Collector” has the meaning given by the Land Revenue Collection Act 1940;
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folio
Defined · s 4
“folio” means a folio of the land‑register, whether qualified or unqualified as to title;
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instrument
Defined · s 4
“instrument” includes a transfer, lease, mortgage, transmission application, charge and any other application, or any other document in writing relating to any disposition, devolution or acquisition of land or any claim to or vesting of interest in land;
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interest
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“interest”, in relation to land, means any interest in land recognised as such by law, and includes an estate in land;
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land
Defined · s 4
“land” means —(a)the surface of any defined parcel of the earth, so much of the subterranean space below and so much of the column of airspace above the surface whether or not held apart from the surface as is reasonably necessary for the proprietor’s use and enjoyment, and includes any estate or interest therein and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto; or(b)any parcel of airspace or any subterranean space whether or not held apart from the surface of the earth and described with certainty by reference to a plan approved by the Chief Surveyor and filed with the Authority, and includes any estate or interest therein and all vegetation growing thereon and structures affixed thereto,and where the context so permits, the proprietorship of land includes natural rights to air, light, water and support and the right of access to any highway on which the land abuts;
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proprietor
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“proprietor” means any person who appears from the land‑register to be the person entitled to an estate or interest in any land which has been brought under the provisions of this Act, and includes a mortgagee, chargee and lessee;
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registered land
Defined · s 4
“registered land” means land which has been brought under the provisions of this Act by being included in a folio;
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Registrar
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“Registrar” means the Registrar of Titles appointed under section 5;
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