Section 2
Interpretation
of Town and Country Planning Act
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“amendment”, in relation to the Master Plan, the District Plan or the
Local Plan, includes any alteration or addition to or any repeal or replacement of the Master Plan, the District Plan or the Local Plan in whole or in part;
“breach of planning control” means —
(a)
the carrying out of any development of land without the requisite planning permission;
(b)
the carrying out of works in a conservation area without the requisite conservation permission; or
(c)
any failure to comply with any condition subject to which planning permission or conservation permission was granted;
“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure (whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise) and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing-stage or bridge, or any structure or foundation connected to the foregoing;
“committee” means the committee appointed under section 7;
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“conservation” means the preservation, enhancement or restoration of —
(i)
the character or appearance of; and
(ii)
the interior and exterior of any building in, a conservation area;
“conservation area” means an area designated by the Minister in accordance with sections 5, 17 and 20;
“conservation permission” means permission referred to in section 23(4);
“consolidation permission” means permission referred to in section 23(3);
“development plans” means the Master Plan, the District Plans and the
Local Plans;
“District Plan” means a land use plan for each of the administrative districts;
“enforcement notice” means a notice served under section 36;
“functions” includes powers and duties;
“information notice” has the meaning assigned to it in section 33;
“land” includes buildings, land covered by water and any estate or interest in or right over land;
“Local Plan” means a land use plan prepared for a locality;
“lot” means any piece of land entered in the Register kept under section 7 of the Land Code (Chapter 40) under a single document of title;
“Master Plan” has the meaning assigned to it by section 9;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for town and country planning;
“occupier” includes any person in actual occupation of land or premises or any person having the charge, management or control of the land or premises either on his own account or as an agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;
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“owner”, in relation to land or premises, means —
(a)
the owner as shown in the Register kept under section 7 of the Land Code (Chapter 40) or his legally appointed representative;
(b)
the person for the time being receiving the rent of the land or premises whether on his own account or as trustee for any other person or as receiver (not being appointed by or on behalf of a mortgagee) or the person who would receive the rent if the land or premises were let to a tenant and includes —
(i)
a mortgagee in possession; and
(ii)
the purchaser of a newly constructed premises or part thereof in respect of which a temporary occupation permit or a certificate of statutory completion has been granted;
“planning area” means any area designated by the Planning Authority under section 8(1);
“Planning Authority”, in relation to this Act or any Part or provision of this Act, means the person or persons appointed under section 6(1) to be responsible for the operation of this Act or that Part or provision;
“planning permission” means permission referred to in section 23(2);
“public purpose” means any land needed for the purposes of carrying out the land provisions of an approved development plan and such land is deemed to be land for a public purpose as provided in section 3(1) of the Land Acquisition Act (Chapter 41);
“repealed Act” means the repealed Town and Country Planning
(Development Control) Act (Chapter 143);
“street” includes any road, square, footway or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public has a right of way, and also the way over any public bridge, and includes also any road, footway or passage, open court or open alley, used or intended to be used as a means of access to 2 or more holdings, whether the public has a right of way thereover or not; and all channels, drains and ditches at the side of any street are deemed to be part of that street;
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“subdivision agreement” means any agreement whereby any person is given —
(a)
a right, whether vested or contingent, to acquire, lease or obtain possession of any lot or piece of land, whether immediately or on the fulfilment of any condition or on the happening of any event or after the lapse of any period of time or on the exercise of any option or on payment of any sum whether by instalments or otherwise; or
(b)
a right to erect a building on any portion of a property belonging to some other person;
“subdivision permission”
means permission referred to in section 23(3);
“temporary occupation permit” means a temporary occupation permit granted under any written law;
“use”, in relation to land, does not include the use of land by the carrying out of any building or other operations on the land;
“written permission” means a planning permission, subdivision permission, consolidation permission or conservation permission as the case may be, granted by the Planning Authority and includes any such permission granted or issued by electronic transmission or in a medium other than paper and authenticated in such manner as the
Planning Authority may determine;
“written statement”, in relation to the Master Plan, the District Plan or the Local Plan, means that part of the Master Plan, the District Plan or the Local Plan, which includes a summary of the main proposals of the
Master Plan, the District Plan or the Local Plan, with such descriptive matter as the Planning Authority considers necessary to illustrate the proposals of the Master Plan, the District Plan or the Local Plan, or as the Minister may, direct for that purpose.