Singapore legislation
Section 7
Section 7
Owners who suffer substantial impairment in rights in land may require their land to be acquired
(1)
The owner of any land temporary possession of which is or has been taken in accordance with section 5 may, by written notice given to the Authority, request the Government to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act 1966 —
the land; and
any other land of the owner related to the land in paragraph (a),if the owner considers that the owner suffers substantial impairment of the owner’s rights in the lands in paragraphs (a) and (b) because of the taking of that temporary possession.
(2)
If there is more than one owner of the land concerned, the notice under this section must be given by all the owners.
(3)
Any notice under this section is irrevocable once given to the Authority.
(4)
For the purposes of this section and section 7A, land (called the A land) is related to other land temporary possession of which is or has been taken in accordance with section 5 (called in this section and section 7A the temporarily occupied land) if the A land is the remainder of a parcel of land part of which is the temporarily occupied land.
(5)
In this section and section 7A —
Definition
“owner”, in relation to any land, means —
a person who has the fee simple estate in the land;
a person who is the grantee or lessee under a State title for the land;
a person who has become entitled to exercise a power of sale of the land; or
a person in occupation of the land under a tenancy the term of which exceeds 7 years;
Definition
“parcel of land” means the whole area of land that —
is the subject of a separate certificate of title registered under the Land Titles Act 1993; or
is a lot in a lawful division of land and capable of being separately held by any owner,and where a single building is erected on 2 or more such adjoining lands or lots mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b), includes the area comprised in those lands or lots, as the case may be.