No. S 498
Income Tax Act
(Chapter 134)
Income Tax (Efficient Pollution Control Equipment) (Amendment) Rules 2001
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7 and 19A(6)(c) of the Income Tax Act, the Minister for Finance hereby makes the following Rules:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Rules may be cited as the Income Tax (Efficient Pollution Control Equipment) (Amendment) Rules 2001 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st October 2001.
Amendment of Schedule
2.  The Schedule to the Income Tax (Efficient Pollution Control Equipment) Rules (R 10) is amended by deleting Part I and substituting the following Part:
Part I
The emission levels of the following pollutants must not exceed the specified emission levels:
Pollutant
 
Standard Applicable To
 
Specified Levels
(1) Ammonia and ammonium compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
50 mg/Nm3 expressed as ammonia
(2) Antimony and its compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
3.5 mg/Nm3 expressed as antimony
(3) Arsenic and its compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
0.75 mg/Nm3 expressed as arsenic
(4) Benzene
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
3.5 mg/Nm3
(5) Cadmium and its compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
2 mg/Nm3 expressed as cadmium
(6) Carbon monoxide
 
Any trade, industry, process or fuel burning equipment
 
450 mg/Nm3
(7) Chlorine
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
20 mg/Nm3
(8) Copper and its compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
3.5 mg/Nm3 expressed as copper
(9) Ethylene oxide
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
3.5 mg/Nm3
(10) Fluorine, hydrofluoric acid or inorganic fluorine compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
35 mg/Nm3 expressed as hydrofluoric acid
(11) Formaldehyde
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
15 mg/Nm3
(12) Hydrogen chloride
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
100 mg/Nm3
(13) Hydrogen sulphide
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
4 mg/Nm3
(14) Lead and its compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
3.5 mg/Nm3 expressed as lead
(15) Mercury and its compounds
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
2 mg/Nm3 expressed as mercury
(16) Oxides of nitrogen
 
Any trade, industry, process or fuel burning equipment
 
500 mg/Nm3 expressed as nitrogen dioxide
(17) Particulate substances including smoke, soot, dust, ash, fly-ash, cinders, cement, lime, alumina, grit and other solid particles of any kind
 
Any trade, industry, process, fuel burning equipment or industrial plant (except for any cold blast foundry cupolas)
 
50 mg/Nm3
(18) Styrene monomer
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
75 mg/Nm3
(19) Sulphur dioxide (non-combustion sources)
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
375 mg/Nm3
(20) Sulphur trioxide and other acid gases
 
The manufacture of sulphuric acid
 
375 mg/Nm3 expressed as sulphur trioxide
(21) Sulphur trioxide or sulphuric acid mist
 
Any trade, industry or process, other than any combustion process and any plant involving the manufacture of sulphuric acid
 
50 mg/Nm3 expressed as sulphur trioxide
(22) Vinyl chloride monomer
 
Any trade, industry or process
 
15 mg/Nm3
”.

Made this 4th day of October 2001.

LIM SIONG GUAN
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.
[MF(R) A9.1.047 V.6; AG/LEG/SL/134/1997/5 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 7(2) of the Income Tax Act).