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PART II
REGISTER OF OWNERS OF FLATS
4.
—(1) Where a Town Council proposes to carry out lift upgrading works in any building within a precinct, the Town Council shall prepare a register of owners of beneficiary flats in the building for those works, entering the names and addresses of all persons who —
(a)
are owners of beneficiary flats in that building in relation to those lift upgrading works or are entitled to have their names entered in the register as owners of such flats; and
(b)
are not disqualified under rule 6 from voting at the poll relating to those lift upgrading works.
(2) The register of owners for a precinct may comprise a series of subsidiary registers of owners of beneficiary flats comprised in each building within the precinct.
5.
—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any person who, immediately before the commencement of a poll relating to the proposal to carry out lift upgrading works under section 24C of the Act, is —
(a)
the most recent purchaser, jointly or otherwise, of a leasehold interest in a beneficiary flat; or
(b)
the most recent purchaser, jointly or otherwise, of the beneficiary flat under an agreement for a lease,
shall, for the purposes of these Rules, be the owner of the beneficiary flat within that precinct and shall be entered in the register as such.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the following persons shall not be the owner or owners of any beneficiary flat for the purposes of these Rules and shall not be entitled to be registered as such:
(a)
any sole purchaser of such a flat who is neither a citizen of Singapore nor a Singapore corporation;
(b)
the joint purchasers of such a flat, all of whom are neither citizens of Singapore nor Singapore corporations;
(c)
any body corporate which is declared under section 50A of the Housing and Development Act (Cap. 129) to be entitled to purchase such a flat; and
(d)
any sole purchaser or joint purchasers of such a flat which is the subject of an agreement entered into under the Lease Buyback Scheme.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, where only one of the most recent joint purchasers of a beneficiary flat is either a citizen of Singapore or a Singapore corporation, all the joint purchasers shall be the owners of the flat for the purposes of these Rules and shall be entitled to be registered as such.
(4) Where the owner of a beneficiary flat is deceased and representation has been taken out at any time before the commencement of the poll, the personal representative of the deceased owner shall, for the purposes of these Rules, be entitled to have his name entered in the register as owner of the beneficiary flat instead of the deceased owner.
(5) Where an owner of a beneficiary flat is of unsound mind or his person or estate is liable to be dealt with in any way under the law relating to mental disorders, his committee or such other person who properly has the management of his estate shall be entered in the register as the owner of the beneficiary flat.
(6) The HDB shall, for the purposes of these Rules, be the owner of a beneficiary flat within a precinct and shall be entered in the register as such if immediately before the commencement of the poll —
(a)
the beneficiary flat is neither sold nor rented out by the HDB;
(b)
the beneficiary flat is rented out (but not sold) by the HDB; or
(c)
the beneficiary flat is the subject of an agreement entered into under the Lease Buyback Scheme.
6. An owner of a beneficiary flat or his personal representative shall be disqualified from voting at a poll if the HDB has served any of the following notices on him and does not subsequently waive in writing any such notice before the commencement of the poll:
(a)
a notice of the intention of the HDB to have the flat vested in itself pursuant to section 47 (2A) or 52(1A) or (2) of the Housing and Development Act (Cap. 129);
(b)
a notice of the intention of the HDB to rescind an agreement for a lease of the flat pursuant to section 47(2A) or 52(3) of the Housing and Development Act;
(c)
a notice of the intention of the HDB to re-enter upon the flat pursuant to section 55 of the Housing and Development Act;
(d)
a notice of the intention of the HDB to compulsorily acquire the flat pursuant to section 56 of the Housing and Development Act;
(e)
a notice of the intention of the HDB to terminate the lease or an agreement for a lease of the flat.
7.
—(1) The Town Council shall, not later than the day before the commencement of a poll in relation to any lift upgrading works in any building within a precinct, complete the register referred to in rule 4(1) and shall certify the completed register as the register in operation for those lift upgrading works in that building.
(2) The register in operation for any lift upgrading works in a building shall be conclusive evidence for the purpose of determining whether a person is entitled to vote at a poll in relation to those lift upgrading works in that building.