Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 23/1994

Read the first time on 25th July 1994.

An Act to amend the Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Act (Chapter 310 of the 1993 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 may be cited as the Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) (Amendment) Act 1994 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 2

2. Section 2 of the Smoking (Prohibition in Certain Places) Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “public service vehicle”, the following definition:

“ “residential premises or building” means any premises or building which is permitted to be used pursuant to the Planning Act [Cap. 232] or any other written law as a dwelling-house or which is lawfully so used;”.

Amendment of section 3

3. Section 3(1) of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(a)

any premises or building or such part thereof or any class of premises or buildings or such parts thereof —

(i)	being used for commercial, industrial or recreational purposes; or
(ii)	to which members of the public or a section of the public have or ordinarily would have access whether on payment of a fee or otherwise;

(b)

any common property of any residential premises or building; or”; and

(b)

by re-lettering the existing paragraph (b) as paragraph (c).

Amendment of section 6

4. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:

“(2A) Where any person smokes in a specified place in contravention of any notification made under section 3(1), any other person who is aggrieved by the smoking of that person may lodge a complaint to the manager of the specified place and it shall be the duty of the manager of the specified place —

(a)	to take all reasonable steps to investigate into the complaint; and
(b)	if the complaint is found to be true, to take action in accordance with subsection (1) or (2) against the person smoking in the specified place.”; and

(b)

by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsection:

“(3) If the manager of any specified place or the operator of any specified vehicle, as the case may be, fails or neglects to comply with the provisions of —

(a)	subsection (1) or (2) in relation to any person whom he knows or ought reasonably to know is smoking in the specified place or specified vehicle; or
(b)	subsection (2A) in relation to any complaint received by him that a person is smoking in the specified place,

in contravention of any notification made under section 3(1), that manager or operator shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $2,000.”.

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