Gas (Metering) (Amendment) Regulations 2019

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Aug 2019

No. S 578

Gas Act

(CHAPTER 116A)

Gas (Metering)
(Amendment) Regulations 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 96 of the Gas Act, the Energy Market Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Trade and Industry, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Gas (Metering) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 1 September 2019.

Amendment of regulation 5

2. The Gas (Metering) Regulations (Rg 3) are amended by renumbering regulation 5 as paragraph (1) of that regulation, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraphs:

“(2) A gas transporter or a gas retailer must collect and use an individual’s unique identity information to verify, in relation to a report by the individual to the gas transporter or gas retailer (as the case may be) about any tampering or suspected tampering of any meter, the individual’s identity.

(3) An individual’s unique identity information for the purpose of paragraph (2) is any of the following:

(a)	the individual’s NRIC number;
(b)	the individual’s foreign identification number or FIN;
(c)	the individual’s work permit number.”.

Amendment of regulation 16

3. Regulation 16 of the Gas (Metering) Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting “5(b)” in paragraph (1) and substituting “5(1)(b)”; and
(b)	by deleting “5(a)” in paragraph (3) and substituting “5(1)(a)”.

Made on 29 August 2019.

NG HOW YUE

Chairman,
Energy Market Authority of Singapore.

[ERMS-180730257-761848; AG/LEGIS/SL/116A/2015/6 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 96(4) of the Gas Act).

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