Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 · Updated to 2 Mar 2016 · Part II · Licensing of Housing Developers
5. Prohibition against housing development except by virtue of a licence and provisions relating to the grant of a licence
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Only a licensed housing developer may carry on housing development. Without the controller's written consent, an unlicensed developer may not call itself a housing developer. A developer applies to the controller in the prescribed form with the required documents and fees. The controller may grant or refuse a licence and may set, change or cancel its conditions.
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No housing development shall be engaged in, carried on, undertaken or caused to be undertaken except by a housing developer in possession of a licence issued under this Act.
housing development
“housing development” means to develop or construct or cause to be constructed in any manner whatsoever more than four units of housing accommodation and includes the collection of moneys or the carrying on of any building operations for the purpose of erecting housing accommodation in, on, over or under any land; or the sale of more than four lots of land or building lots with the view of constructing more than four units of housing accommodation;
Except with the written consent of the Controller no housing developer other than a licensed housing developer shall assume or use in relation to his business or any part of his business the words “housing developer” or any of its derivatives or any other word indicating the carrying on of the business of housing development.
Controller
“Controller” means the Controller of Housing appointed under section 4;
A housing developer who desires to engage in or carry out or undertake or cause to be undertaken a housing development shall apply to the Controller for a licence and any such application shall be made in the prescribed form and in the case of any applicant listed in column (1) of the
housing developer
“housing developer” means any person, body of persons, company, firm or society (by whatever name described), who or which engages in or carries on or undertakes or causes to be undertaken a housing development, and in a case where the housing developer is under liquidation, includes a person or body appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be the provisional liquidator or liquidator for the housing developer;
Schedule the application shall be accompanied by the documents listed against him in column (2), every such document being verified by means of a statutory declaration made by the person listed in column (3) of the said Schedule.
Upon receiving an application for a licence under this section, the
Controller may grant the licence applied for or refuse to grant such a
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licence; and in granting such a licence the Controller may impose thereon such conditions (including the period during which the licence shall be valid) as he may deem fit and proper.
No application for a licence under this section shall be considered unless the prescribed fees have been paid to the Controller.
prescribed
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act, and where no mode is mentioned means prescribed from time to time by order published in the Gazette;
There shall be charged and paid to the Controller on the grant of a licence and at such intervals after such grant during the period of validity of the licence such fees as may be prescribed.
Subject to section 14, the Controller may at any time vary, cancel or alter the conditions imposed under subsection (4) or impose any new or additional conditions; or, where the licence is not subject to any condition, impose thereon such conditions as the Controller may deem fit for carrying out the provisions of this Act.