Sewerage and Drainage (Surface Water Drainage) Regulations

Sewerage and Drainage Act

(Chapter 294, Section 74)

Rg 4

G.N. No. S 169/1999

REVISED EDITION 2007

(15th May 2007)

[1st April 1999]

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sewerage and Drainage (Surface Water Drainage) Regulations.

Definition

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, “Code of Practice” means the Code of Practice on Surface Water Drainage issued under section 32 of the Act.

Plans, drawings and designs submitted under section 33 (3) of Act

3.—(1) Layout plans, designs and engineering drawings submitted under section 33(3) of the Act for the purposes of section 23, 24 or 26 of the Act shall be signed by a qualified person and the owner of the premises where the works are to be carried out.

(2) Plans, drawings and designs referred to in paragraph (1) shall be prepared in accordance with the Code of Practice.

Prohibition of discharge of silt, etc., into storm water drainage system

4.—(1) No person shall discharge or cause or permit the discharge into the storm water drainage system of Total Suspended Solids in concentrations greater than 50 milligrams per litre of the discharge.

(2) Every person carrying out earthworks or construction works shall comply with the Code of Practice and, in particular, with the following requirements:

(a)	earth control measures shall be provided and maintained in accordance with the Code of Practice;
(b)	runoff within, upstream of and adjacent to the work site shall be effectively drained away without causing flooding within or in the vicinity of the work site;
(c)	all earth slopes shall be set outside a drainage reserve;
(d)	all earth slopes adjacent to any drain shall be close turfed; and
(e)	adequate measures shall be taken to prevent any earth, sand, top-soil, cement, concrete, debris or any other material to fall or be washed into the storm water drainage system from any stockpile thereof.

Works approved under section 33 (5) of Act

5.—(1) Any works approved by the Board under section 33(5) of the Act for the purposes of section 23, 24 or 26 of the Act shall be carried out in accordance with the Code of Practice and any conditions imposed by the Board under section 33(7) of the Act.

(2) If within a period of 6 months or such longer period as the Board may in any particular case allow, from the date of granting any approval under section 33(5) of the Act for the purposes of section 23, 24 or 26 of the Act, the works approved have not commenced or been continued, the approval shall be deemed to be withdrawn, but the Board may renew the approval subject to such conditions as he thinks fit.

Penalty

6. Any person who contravenes any provision of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of $500 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.

[G.N. No. S 169/99]

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