Fire Safety (Building and Pipeline Fire Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 18 May 2022

No. S 387

Fire Safety Act 1993

Fire Safety
(Building and Pipeline Fire Safety)
(Amendment) Regulations 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 113(1) of the Fire Safety Act 1993, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations are the Fire Safety (Building and Pipeline Fire Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and, except for regulation 4, come into operation on 19 May 2022.

(2) Regulation 4 is deemed to have come into operation on 31 December 2021.

Amendment of regulation 44

2. In regulation 44(a) of the Fire Safety (Building and Pipeline Fire Safety) Regulations (Rg 1) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), replace “or 46(2)” with “, 46(2) or 47”.

New regulation 47

3. After regulation 46 of the principal Regulations, insert —

“Application of Fire Code to certain exempted fire safety works

47. Any person who carries out any fire safety works exempted under the Fire Safety (Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations — Exemption) Order 2022 (G.N. No. S 386/2022) must ensure that the fire safety works are designed, installed, tested, inspected, operated and maintained in accordance with the Fire Code.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

4. In the principal Regulations —

(a)

in regulation 2 (definition of “fire certificate”), replace “section 20(1)” with “section 35”;

(b)

in the following provisions, replace “section 23(1)” with “section 55(1)”:

Regulation 3

Regulation 4(1)

Regulation 6(1)

Regulation 7(1) and (3);

(c)

in the following provisions, replace “(Cap. 29)” with “1989”:

Regulation 7(1)

Regulation 25(5);

(d)

in regulation 7(2), after “Building Control Act”, insert “1989”;

(e)

in regulation 10(1), replace “section 23(2)(a)” with “section 55(3)(a)”;

(f)

in the following provisions, replace “section 23(2)(b)” with “section 55(3)(b)”:

Regulation 10(2)(a)

Regulation 32(2);

(g)

in the following provisions, replace “section 23(3)” with “section 55(4)”:

Regulation 10(2)(b)

Regulation 11(2);

(h)

in regulation 10(2)(c), replace “section 23(4)” with “section 55(5)”;

(i)

in regulation 12(1), replace “section 23(1A)” with “section 55(2)”;

(j)

in the following provisions, replace “section 25(4)” with “section 57(5)”:

Regulation 13

Regulation 17(4)(c);

(k)

in regulation 17(4)(c), replace “section 23(2)” with “section 55(3)”;

(l)

in regulation 21(1), replace “section 30” with “section 61”;

(m)

in regulation 25(1), replace “section 20(1)” with “section 35”;

(n)

in regulation 25(1A)(a) and (b) and (4), replace “section 20” with “section 35”;

(o)

in regulation 32(1), (1A), (1B)(a) and (3), replace “Part IV” with “Part 4”;

(p)

in regulation 32(1)(a), replace “section 20A or 23(2)(c)” with “section 36 or 55(3)(c)”;

(q)

in regulation 32(2)(a)(iii), replace “section 55” with “section 106”; and

(r)

in regulation 36, replace “section 27(1)” with “section 59(1)”.

[G.N. Nos. S 172/2010; S 545/2013; S 328/2015; S 769/2020]

Made on 13 May 2022.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[112/2/030; AG/LEGIS/SL/109A/2020/2 Vol. 1]

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