Fire Safety (Amendment) Act 2016 - Singapore Statutes Online

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

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NO. 4]

Friday, January 27

[2017

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 10 November 2016 and assented to by the President on 21 December 2016:—

Fire Safety (Amendment) Act 2016

(No. 31 of 2016)

I assent.

TONY TAN KENG YAM,

President.

21 December 2016.

Date of Commencement: 1 February 2017

An Act to amend the Fire Safety Act (Chapter 109A of the 2000 Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Fire Safety (Amendment) Act 2016 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Amendment of section 2

2. Section 2(1) of the Fire Safety Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (a) of the definition of “pipeline owner” and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a)	if the section of the relevant pipeline is entirely or partially on a piperack or pipetrack, the person who owns or leases, and has management and control, of the piperack or pipetrack; or”;

(b)

by deleting the words “if paragraph (a) does not apply,” in paragraph (b) of the definition of “pipeline owner” and substituting the words “if the entire section of the relevant pipeline is not on a piperack or pipetrack,”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “piperack or pipetrack” in the definition of “relevant pipeline”, the words “, if any,”.

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