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Application of HUDC Housing Estates Act and Housing and Development Act after registration of strata title application or issue of subsidiary strata certificates of title
126B.
—(1) Upon the registration of the strata title application in respect of any housing estate built on land to which the HUDC Housing Estates Act (Cap. 131) applies —
(a)
the HUDC Housing Estates Act shall cease to apply to the housing estate and to all the registered proprietors of flats within the housing estate;
(b)
any body corporate constituted under the provisions of the HUDC Housing Estates Act in respect of that land shall continue as a management corporation constituted under the provisions of this Act having as its corporate name the corporate name as prescribed in this Act (referred to in this section as the new management corporation);
(c)
the management committee constituted under the HUDC Housing Estates Act of such body corporate shall, subject to the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act (Cap. 30C), be the council of the new management corporation, and any person who, immediately before such registration, is a member of the management committee shall be deemed to have been elected under the provisions of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act (Cap. 30C) as a member of the council of the new management corporation;
(d)
all by-laws relating to the land under the provisions of the HUDC Housing Estates Act (Cap. 131) shall cease to have any force or effect in relation to that land but without prejudice to any right or liability accruing or legal proceedings instituted prior to the registration of the strata title application;
(e)
any contribution levied by such body corporate under the provisions of the HUDC Housing Estates Act and unpaid on the registration of the strata title application may be recovered by the new management corporation as if it were a contribution levied by the new management corporation under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act;
(f)
any charge constituted upon a flat in favour of such body corporate under the provisions of the HUDC Housing Estates Act in connection with any unpaid contributions shall be deemed to be a charge constituted upon the lot corresponding to that flat in favour of the new management corporation under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act;
(g)
every fund which was, immediately before the registration of the strata title application, kept by such body corporate under the provisions of the HUDC Housing Estates Act, shall be deemed to be a fund required under the corresponding provisions of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act to be established and maintained by the new management corporation; and
(h)
any policy of insurance effected by such body corporate in relation to any building within the housing estate in accordance with the provisions of the HUDC Housing Estates Act and in force on the registration of the strata title application shall continue and deemed to have been effected under the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act, and sections 70 and 71 of that Act shall not apply to or in respect of the new management corporation for that housing estate until the expiry of that policy.
[27/95; 47/2004; 46/2007; 30/2008]
(2) In the case of flats built on designated land which have been sold under Part IV of the Housing and Development Act (Cap. 129), the provisions of Part IV of that Act shall cease to apply in relation to such flats upon the registration of the strata title application in respect of such designated land.
[27/95; 46/2007]
(3) The Minister may, for the purposes of facilitating any transfer of designated land or the issue of subsidiary strata certificates of title for the flats comprised in any building on such land, make regulations containing such other transitional, consequential or savings provisions as may appear necessary or expedient to the Minister.
[27/95]