THE ROAD FRONTAGE PREMIA ACT

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CHAPTER 75
THE ROAD FRONTAGE PREMIA ACT
[PRINCIPAL LEGISLATION]
Arrangement of Sections
Section Title
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Apportionment of road frontage premia.
4. Occupier required to pay road frontage premium.
5. Appeals.
6. Regulations.
7-8. Omitted.

Interpretation.
3. Apportionment of road frontage premia.
4. Occupier required to pay road frontage premium.
5. Appeals.
6. Regulations.
7-8. Omitted.

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1. This Act may be cited as the Road Frontage Premia Act. 2.

rved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed without permission of OAG.306
1. This Act may be cited as the Road Frontage Premia Act. 2.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner for Lands;
“Government lease” has the meaning assigned to that term in
the Freehold Titles (Conversion) and Government Lease
Act repealed by the Government Leaseholds (Conversion
to Rights of Occupancy) Act;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for lands;
“occupier” means any person who is in occupation of any
parcel of land in an urban area otherwise than under a
right of occupancy or a government lease and includes his
personal representatives and other statutory assignees;
“right of occupancy” has the meaning assigned to that term
in the Land Act;
“road” means any road or street, square, court, alley or passage,
bridge, lane, footpath, bridle path or driftway, and includes
land reserved therefor, but does not include a highway as
defined in the Roads Act or a sanitary lane or any land
reserved for a highway or a sanitary lane;
“road frontage premium” means the sum of money payable by
an occupier under section 4 in respect of the construction
of a road or execution of any road work;
“road work” means any work for the purpose of sewering,
levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling or making
good any road or part of a road; and
Short title
Interpretation
Cap.

urpose of sewering,
levelling, paving, metalling, flagging, channelling or making
good any road or part of a road; and
Short title
Interpretation
Cap.

393
Cap. 367
Cap. 113
Cap. 167
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THE ROAD FRONTAGE PREMIA ACT
An Act to empower the Commissioner for Lands to charge and levy road
frontage premia on lands held otherwise than under rights of occupancy
or Government leases. [30th March, 1970]
Act No. 4 of 1970

charge and levy road
frontage premia on lands held otherwise than under rights of occupancy
or Government leases. [30th March, 1970]
Act No. 4 of 1970

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THE ROAD FRONTAGE PREMIA ACT [CAP. 75 R.E. 2023]
“urban area” means an area which is within the boundaries of
an urban authority established under the Local Government
(Urban Authorities) Act. 3.–(1) Where-
(a) the Government or a local government authority has
constructed a road in any urban area, or has caused to
be executed in such area any road work; or
(b) the Government or a local authority has prepared or
approved a scheme for the construction of a road or
execution of any road work in an urban area,
the Commissioner may, after ascertaining the cost or the
estimated cost, as the case may be, of construction of such
road or road work, from the Government department or the
local authority concerned, apportion such cost or estimated
cost on the lands, whether leased lands, lands held under
rights of occupancy or lands held by occupiers, which front,
adjoin or about on such road or part thereof, in the opinion of
the Commissioner, are or will be benefited by the road or the
road work, as the case may be.

or about on such road or part thereof, in the opinion of
the Commissioner, are or will be benefited by the road or the
road work, as the case may be.

(2) In settling apportionment of the cost of construction
of a road or execution of a road work in respect of any land
held by an occupier, the Commissioner shall have regard to the
following factors-
(a) the frontage of the land;
(b) the greater or lesser degree of benefit to be derived by
such land from the road or road work; and
(c) any other factor which the Commissioner may consider
relevant. 4.–(1) The sum of money apportioned in respect of land held
by an occupier shall be the road frontage premium in respect
of that land and shall be payable by such occupier. (2) The Commissioner shall, by notice in writing, require
the occupier to make payment of the road frontage premium
within such period and in such manner as may be specified in
the notice:
Cap. 288
Apportionment
of road frontage
premia
Occupier
required to pay
road frontage
premium

od and in such manner as may be specified in
the notice:
Cap. 288
Apportionment
of road frontage
premia
Occupier
required to pay
road frontage
premium

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Provided that, an occupier shall not be required to pay any
road frontage premium until after the expiration of six weeks
from the date on which the notice is served upon him.
(3) The road frontage premium required to be paid by an
occupier under this section shall be a debt due to the United
Republic and may be recovered by a civil suit instituted by the
Commissioner on behalf of the United Republic.
5. An occupier who is aggrieved by any decision of the
Commissioner under this Act may appeal to the Minister in
writing within four weeks of the receipt by him of a notice
under this Act.
6. The Minister may make regulations for the better carrying out
of the objects and purposes of this Act, and, without prejudice
to the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations
prescribing the manner in which an appeal under section 5
may be made.
7-8. [Omitted.]
Appeals
Regulations
Omitted