Sewerage and Drainage (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 27 Mar 2025

No. S 206

Sewerage and Drainage Act 1999

Sewerage and Drainage
(Fees) (Amendment)
Regulations 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 74 of the Sewerage and Drainage Act 1999, the Public Utilities Board, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Sewerage and Drainage (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into operation on 1 April 2025.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. In the Sewerage and Drainage (Fees) Regulations 2015 (G.N. No. S 251/2015), in regulation 2 —

(a)	in the regulation heading, after “Fees”, insert “for copies of plans or records”; and
(b)	delete paragraph (2).

New regulations 2A and 2B

3. In the Sewerage and Drainage (Fees) Regulations 2015, after regulation 2, insert —

“Fees for applications under section 33(1) of Act

2A.—(1) For the purposes of section 33(2) of the Act, the fee payable for an application under section 33(1) of the Act for a clearance certificate or for the approval of the Board in respect of any works for the purposes of section 11, 14, 23 or 24 of the Act, is —

(a)	if the works involve a minor project — $1,450 for the works to which the application relates; and
(b)	if the works involve a major project — $1,850 for the works to which the application relates.

(2) The fee must accompany the first submission of the plans for the works made during the application.

(3) In this regulation —

“major project” means a project other than a minor project;

“minor project” means a project involving —

(a)	works for only a single unit of a strata landed dwelling‑housing or landed housing (such as a terrace house, detached house, semi‑detached house, bungalow or landed public house);
(b)	works for an external structure (such as a covered linkway, bus shelter, pedestrian overhead bridge, pavilion, taxi stand or vehicle drop‑off point); or
(c)	simple or small‑scale works that are eligible for the single stage approval process known as the Direct Submission Process through the electronic service described in section 42AA of the Building Control Act 1989.

Fees for applications for administrative exemptions

2B. The fee payable for an application under section 73A(1) of the Act for the Board to exempt a particular person from the operation of any of the following, in relation to any requirement for the works for the purposes of section 11, 14, 23 or 24 of the Act, is $950 for each requirement for which the exemption is sought:

(a)	any provision of the Act (including any material incorporated by reference under section 32A of the Act);
(b)	any provision of any specification or code of practice mentioned in section 32 of the Act.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 111/2022; S 912/2023]

Made on 25 March 2025.

CHIANG CHIE FOO

Chairperson,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[MSE S020/01/303; AG/LEGIS/SL/294/2020/3]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 74(3) of the Sewerage and Drainage Act 1999).

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