Residential Property Act 1976 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Miscellaneous
41. Validation of acts done and directions given by Government, etc.
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No legal proceedings in respect of any such act, decision or thing, arising from, relating to or connected with residential property, which is alleged to have been done or taken in bad faith in the execution of duty during the period from 11 September 1973 to 1 October 1976 may be instituted or maintained in any court of law unless a certificate of the Attorney‑General is first obtained sanctioning the institution of such legal proceedings.
residential property
“residential property” includes —(a)any vacant land upon which no building or other structure exists or any land upon which exists any building or other structure which is constructed or used contrary to any written law;(b)any house, building or other premises or any part thereof which is permitted to be used pursuant to the Planning Act 1998 or any other written law as a dwelling house or which is lawfully so used;(c)any land zoned for residential purposes in the Master Plan; and(d)such other land or building, in whatever manner zoned in the Master Plan, as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be residential property for the purposes of this Act,but does not include —(e)any land, whether or not vacant, which is zoned for industrial or commercial purposes or both such purposes in the Master Plan or which is permitted to be used pursuant to the Planning Act 1998 or any other written law solely for industrial or commercial purposes or both such purposes;(f)any house, building or other premises, or any part thereof, which is permitted to be used pursuant to the Planning Act 1998 or any other written law solely for industrial or commercial purposes or both such purposes or which is lawfully so used;(g)any hotel registered under the provisions of the Hotels Act 1954; and(h)such other land or building, in whatever manner zoned in the Master Plan, as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be industrial, commercial or non‑residential property for the purposes of this Act;
All directions whether of a procedural nature or otherwise, arising from, relating to or connected with residential property, made during the period from 11 September 1973 to 1 October 1976 by or in the name of the Government or any Minister, officer or committee thereof, are deemed to be, and always to have been, validly made, notwithstanding that such directions have been revoked or amended or are or have been inconsistent with, or in conflict with, or contrary to any written law or law previously in force.
Except as provided in section 5(2), any approval granted or refusal to grant approval for the purchase of residential property by the Government, or any Minister, officer or committee thereof, during the period from 11 September 1973 to 1 October 1976 is deemed to have been made under this Act.
Committee
“Committee” means the Residential Property Advisory Committee established under section 25;