Singapore Land Authority


The Singapore Land Authority is a statutory board under the Ministry of Law of the Singapore Government.

History

The SLA was formed on 1 June 2001 when the Land Office, Singapore Land Registry, Survey Department and Land Systems Support Unit were merged. As of November 2011, SLA has a staff strength of roughly 550 employees.

Role

SLA's focus is on land resource optimization and it has 2 main roles: developmental and regulatory.
In its developmental role, SLA oversees the management of State land and buildings, land sales, leases, acquisitions and allocation, developing and marketing land-related information and maintaining the national land information database.
In its regulatory role, SLA is the national land registration authority and is responsible for the management and maintenance of the national land survey system.