14. Each household can only enjoy the Proximity Housing Grant once. You will not be eligible for another Proximity Housing Grant if you buy another HDB flat in the future. This includes your spouse who did not receive the Proximity Housing Grant as we say in clause 9(a)(ii).
15. You and your parents or married child must keep to the proximity rule for at least 5 years from the date of purchase of the resale flat. During the 5 years, you cannot apply to buy a new HDB flat, a DBSS flat, an Executive Condominium or a resale flat; rent a flat; and take over the lease or tenancy, or be included as the essential family member of another flat, DBSS or Executive Condominium outside the town or estate of the resale flat. 16. For the Proximity Housing Grant for a family, your parents or married child may buy a new or resale HDB flat, a DBSS flat or an Executive Condominium from a private property developer, or a private residential property during the 5 years as we say in clause 14, but must keep to the proximity rule.
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17. The terms and conditions of the Proximity Housing Grant will apply to you, your spouse, your parents or married child and other essential family members of the resale flat.
18. If you, your spouse and your parents or married child, (a) break or do not keep to any of the terms and conditions of the Proximity Housing Grant; (b) make any false declaration in your application for the Proximity Housing Grant or to buy the resale flat; or (c) give false information or hold back information in any written forms or undertakings; or you become ineligible to buy or retain the resale flat or for the Proximity Housing Grant, we may, without prejudice to any other rights, not register or stop processing your application to buy the resale flat or for the Proximity Housing Grant, compulsorily acquire the resale flat and recover the Proximity Housing Grant with interest.
19. The amount of interest you have to pay will be what the Proximity Housing Grant would have earned in your CPF Ordinary Account from the day it was put in to the end of the month you return the Proximity Housing Grant and interest to us.
20. We shall have the sole discretion to determine whether to recover the Proximity Housing Grant in full or in part, the amount of Proximity Housing Grant to be recovered, and the rate and amount of interest that you have to pay in line with our prevailing policies, rules and regulations.
21. If you do not return the Proximity Housing Grant and interest in full, any amount not paid will be a debt owing to us. You will not be allowed to buy or take over the lease of another HDB flat until you have paid off all the debts you owe us.
22. We reserve the right to vary the terms and conditions of the Proximity Housing Grant at any time in line with our prevailing policies, rules and regulations.
Caution It is an offence for any person to give us false information relating to buying or selling an HDB flat, including information on the eligibility for the Proximity Housing Grant. Any person who gives false information will be guilty of an offence and will have to pay a fine of up to $5,000 or be imprisoned for up to six months (or both).
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These terms and conditions are updated on 24 August 2015