Singapore Statutes Online - 131 - HUDC Housing Estates Act

HUDC Housing Estates Act
(CHAPTER 131)

Part I PRELIMINARY

1 Short title

2 Interpretation

Part II MANAGEMENT OF HOUSING ESTATES

3 Constitution of bodies corporate

4 Powers, duties and functions of body corporate

5 Common seal of body corporate

6 Meetings of body corporate

7 By-laws for regulation of housing estates

8 Levies by bodies corporate

9 Recovery of contribution from sale of a flat

10 Liability of members for debts of body corporate

11 Power of body corporate to carry out work

12 Body corporate’s address

13 Duties of a body corporate

14 Power of entry

15 Miscellaneous powers of body corporate

16 Register of flat owners

17 Supply of information and certificates by body corporate

18 Body corporate to display notice, etc.

19 Accounts of body corporate to be audited

20 Managing agent

21 Duties of owners and other occupiers of flats

22 Notices to be given by owners and mortgagees

23 Committee of a body corporate

24 Vacation of office of member of committee

25 Chairman, secretary and treasurer of committee

26 Committee members entitled to payment of fees

27 Committee’s decisions to be decisions of body corporate

28 Restrictions imposed on committee by body corporate

29 Records, etc., of body corporate

30 Minister may appoint Board or other person to exercise or perform certain powers, etc.

31 Insurance of a building in a housing estate

32 Further insurance by body corporate

33 Insurance by owner of a flat

34 Rebuilding

35 Insurable interest of body corporate

36 Other rights and remedies not affected by this Act

37 Service of documents on body corporate, owners and others

38 Breaches of provisions of this Part

39 Legal proceedings

40 Disputes to be referred to arbitration

41 Minister may make rules for purposes of this Act

42 Minister may amend Schedules

Part III MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

43 Board’s obligations under existing leases of flats in housing estates

44 Board’s liability for repairs, etc.

45 Board may lease land to lessees of all flats in a housing estate

46 Owners of flats to pay maintenance contributions to body corporate

47 Savings

FIRST SCHEDULE Description of Land

SECOND SCHEDULE By-laws

THIRD SCHEDULE Proceedings of Management Committees of Bodies Corporate

FOURTH SCHEDULE General Meetings of A Body Corporate

Legislative History

An Act for the establishment of bodies corporate comprising the owners of flats in the housing estates known as HUDC housing estates to take over the maintenance and management of those estates from the Housing and Development Board, and for matters connected therewith.