Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

No. S 239

Environmental Protection and
Management Act 1999

Environmental Protection and
Management (Vehicular Emissions)
(Amendment) Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12(5) and 77 of the Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999, the National Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 April 2024.

Amendment of regulation 5

2. In the Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations (Rg 6) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 5, replace “1 April 2023” with “1 April 2024”.

Amendment of regulation 19A

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 19A(1), replace “This section” with “This regulation”.

Amendment of Fourth Schedule

4. In the principal Regulations, in the Fourth Schedule —

(a)

in Part 1, delete the Part heading;

(b)

in paragraph 1, after sub‑paragraph (c), insert —

“(d)	Goods vehicle or bus

(i)

Regulation No. 51 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (UN/ECE) — Uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicles having at least 4 wheels with regard to their sound emissions (Revision 3, incorporating the 03 series of amendments to the Regulation), applying the sound level limits specified in the column titled “Phase 1” on page 17;

(ii)

Regulation (EU) 540/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the sound level of motor vehicles and of replacement silencing systems, and amending Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directive 70/157/EEC, applying the sound level limits specified in the column titled “Phase 1” on page 32 of Regulation (EU) 540/2014; or

(iii)

Paragraph 1(5) of Article 40 of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Announcement No. 619 dated 15 July 2002 (ANNOUNCEMENT THAT PRESCRIBES DETAILS OF SAFETY REGULATIONS FOR ROAD VEHICLES), as amended by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Announcement No. 681 dated 20 April 2016, applying the sound level limits specified in the column titled “Phase 1” on page 17 of Regulation No. 51 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (UN/ECE) — Uniform provisions concerning the approval of motor vehicles having at least 4 wheels with regard to their sound emissions (Revision 3, incorporating the 03 series of amendments to the Regulation)”; and

(c)

delete Part 2.

Amendment of Sixth Schedule

5. In the principal Regulations, in the Sixth Schedule —

(a)

in paragraph 1(g), in the first column, replace “Goods vehicle or bus with gross vehicle weight not exceeding 3.5 tons” with —

“Goods vehicle or bus with gross vehicle weight not exceeding 3.5 tons —

(i)	registered in Singapore before 1 April 2024; or

(ii)	registered elsewhere”;

(b)

in paragraph 1(h), in the first column, replace “Goods vehicle or bus with gross vehicle weight exceeding 3.5 tons” with —

“Goods vehicle or bus with gross vehicle weight exceeding 3.5 tons —

(i)	registered in Singapore before 1 April 2024; or

(ii)	registered elsewhere”;

(c)

in paragraph 1, after sub-paragraph (h), insert —

“(i)	Goods vehicle or bus registered in Singapore on or after 1 April 2024

+5 above the reference value for the motor vehicle”;

(d)

in paragraph 2(d), in the first column, delete “, or goods vehicle or bus”; and

(e)

in paragraph 2, after sub‑paragraph (e), insert —

“(f)	Goods vehicle or bus registered in Singapore before 1 April 2024

(i)

Regulation No. 59 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (UN/ECE) — Uniform provisions concerning the approval of replacement silencing systems (Revision 1, incorporating the 01 series of amendments to the Regulation), or (Revision 2, incorporating the 02 series of amendments to the Regulation);

(ii)	EC Council Directive 70/157/EEC of 6 February 1970 as last amended by Commission Directive 96/20/EC of 27 March 1996;

(iii)

EU 540/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the sound level of motor vehicles and of replacement silencing systems, and amending Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directive 70/157/EEC; or

(iv)	Automobile Type Approval Handbook for Japanese Certification (Blue Book) 11‑3‑112 Attachment 112: Technical Standard for Aftermarket Silencers

(g)	Goods vehicle or bus registered in Singapore on or after 1 April 2024

(i)	Regulation No. 59 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (UN/ECE) — Uniform provisions concerning the approval of replacement silencing systems (Revision 2, incorporating the 02 series of amendments to the Regulation);

(ii)	EU 540/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the sound level of motor vehicles and of replacement silencing systems, and amending Directive 2007/46/EC and repealing Directive 70/157/EEC; or

(iii)

Automobile Type Approval Handbook for Japanese Certification (Blue Book) 11‑3‑112 Attachment 112 Section II: Technical Standard for Aftermarket Silencers”.

[G.N. Nos. S 625/2008; S 564/2010; S 301/2012; S 765/2013; S 766/2013; S 199/2014; S 609/2014; S 372/2016; S 26/2017; S 396/2017; S 480/2017; S 781/2017; S 189/2018; S 420/2018; S 877/2018; S 57/2019; S 322/2019; S 1006/2021; S 249/2022; S 668/2022; S 172/2023; S 188/2023; S 897/2023]

Made on 27 March 2024.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairperson,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[C030/01/118; AG/LEGIS/SL/94A/2020/2 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 77(3) of the Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999).

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