Cap. 158 Art. 3Registration of decontrolled dwelling-houses.

Subject to the provisions of article 6, the Land Valuation

Officer, on the application of an owner made in such manner as may be prescribed, shall register as a decontrolled dwelling-house any dwelling-house which -

(a) is not completed or ready for use as a dwelling-house on the appointed day; or

(b) although completed or ready for use as a dwelling-house on the appointed day, has not been occupied as a dwelling-house on or before that day; or

(c) is completed or ready for use after the appointed day by the making of the structural alterations converting one or more dwelling-houses into a larger number of dwelling-houses; or

(d) was on the first day of March, 1959, occupied by an owner as his ordinary residence and has continued to be so occupied up to and including the appointed day; or

(e) was acquired under a scheme as is referred to in the Home Ownership (Encouragement) Act, and in respect of which the right to register as a decontrolled dwelling-house has been granted as an incentive in accordance with that Act; or

(f) is on the date of the application, occupied by the owner as his ordinary residence and has been so occupied by him, under any title, throughout the period of ten years immediately preceding the date of the application. For the purpose of this paragraph the expression "ordinary residence" does not include a summer residence.