Rapid Transit Systems Act · 1988 Revised Edition · Part V · Further Rights and Powers of Corporation for Purposes of Construction and Operation of Mass Rapid Transit System
37. Obligation of Corporation to purchase land
Feedback & supportThe owner of any land who has been served with a notice under section 35 may, if he so desires, require the Corporation to purchase his estate, right, share or interest in the portion of the land affected by the proposed laying and construction of the railway or the whole of his land and the Corporation shall thereupon request the President of Singapore to direct the acquisition of that land and in that case that property may be acquired in accordance with the provisions of any written law relating to the acquisition of land for a public purpose and any declaration required under any such law that the land is so needed may be made notwithstanding that compensation is to be paid out of the funds of the Corporation, and the declaration shall have effect as if it were a declaration that the land is needed for a public purpose made in accordance with that written law.[30
land
“land” includes and may, where the context so requires, have any one or more of the following meanings separately:(a)land of any tenure and so much of the airspace above the surface as may be reasonably used or enjoyed by any owner thereof, and all substances under the surface, whether or not held apart from the surface;(b)the whole or part of any building or other erection or fixture on land;(c)where an undivided share of a leasehold interest in land has appurtenant to it rights to the exclusive use and occupation of a building or part thereof on such land, such share in the land and all rights appurtenant thereto;(d)any other estate, right, share or interest in land;