LAND TITLES (AMENDMENT) BILL
Parliament of Singapore · 11 July 1973 · 3rd Parliament
Official Report, 11 July 1973, Vol 32, Issue 20 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)
Order for Second Reading read.
3.24 p.m.
The Minister for Law and National Development (Mr E. W. Barker): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."
The amendments proposed in the Bill are designed to make the legislation more effective and to meet present day requirements in the light of rapid building development in the Republic.
Under the Bill, owners of lands with outstanding mortgages may surrender their lands for the re-issue of new titles without having to discharge the mortgages at the time of surrender, and new titles when re-issued may be endorsed with any outstanding mortgages. The Bill also enables the Registrar to direct by various methods that lands approved for erection of buildings (intended to be dealt with in parts) may be brought under the Torrens system prior to the granting of subdivisional approval of the buildings.
The Bill also gives additional powers to the Registrar to enter cautions on certificates of title issued for lands which have not yet been surveyed up to the standard of government requirements and to call a party to an instrument to appear before him for purposes of verifying the party's identity where the party is not represented by a lawyer.
The Bill also provides that any proprietor of land who has altered his name may execute instruments under his new name different from that in the certificate of title and that an amended caveat will be given priority as soon as it is received in the Registry, and not on the date of its notification on the relevant certificate of title.
Other amendments considered desirable from the drafting point of view and for improved administrative operations, have also been included in the Bill.
Sir, I beg to move.
Question put, and agreed to.
Bill accordingly read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.
The house immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill.-[Mr E. W. Barker].
Bill considered in Committee; reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.
Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 11 July 1973. Republished on SGParliament.