HOTELS LICENSING BOARD

Hotel includes a boarding house, lodging-house, guest-house and any building or premises not being a public institution and containing not less than 4 rooms or cubicles in which persons are harboured or lodged for hire or reward of any kind and where any domestic service is provided by the owner, lessee, tenant, occupier or manager for the person so harboured or lodged.

You may apply for an exemption with the HLB if you intend to operate a student hostel or provide accommodation in a club. The exemption is subject to HLB's approval.

You need to submit :

A current copy of relevant Grant of Written Permission from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) as well as copies of all earlier relevant Grant of Written Permission from URA.

Copy of Clearance Certificate (Temporary Occupation Permit) / Compliance Certificate (Certificate of Statutory Completion) from the Central Building Plan Unit, Planning and Development Department, National Environment Agency.

Copy of Temporary Fire Permit (TFP)/Fire Safety Certificate (FSC) from the Fire Safety Bureau. If the TFP is not current, then the FSC is also to be submitted. If the TFP is current, the FSC is to be submitted within one week of issuance of the FSC.

Copy of Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP) /Certificate of Statutory Completion (CSC) from the Building & Construction Authority. If the TOP is not current, the CSC is also to be submitted. If the TOP is current, then the CSC is to be submitted within one week of issuance of the CSC.

The annual fee is :

(i) hotel with 100 rooms or less	$300
(ii) hotel with 101 - 299 rooms	$400
(iii) hotel with 300 rooms or more	$500

 

The HLB comprises of the Chairman, Ms Hoo Sheau Peng and its members are Mr Justin Chew, Mr Peter Tan and Mr Koh Yak Leng. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) provides the Secretariat services for the Hotels Licensing Board (HLB). Hotels Licensing is administered in accordance with the Hotels Act (Chapter 127).