Sewerage and Drainage (Trade Effluent) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 28 Feb 2025

No. S 144

Sewerage and Drainage Act 1999

Sewerage and Drainage
(Trade Effluent)
(Amendment) Regulations 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 74 of the Sewerage and Drainage Act 1999, the Public Utilities Board, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Sewerage and Drainage (Trade Effluent) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into operation on 1 March 2025.

Amendment of regulation 11

2. In the Sewerage and Drainage (Trade Effluent) Regulations (Rg 5) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 11 —

(a)	in paragraph (2), replace “No person shall discharge into any public sewerage system, at the part of the public sewerage system specified in the Board’s permission, trade effluent containing” with “However, any trade effluent discharged under paragraph (1) must not contain”; and
(b)	in paragraph (5), replace “, at the part of the public sewerage system specified in the Board’s permission, trade effluent containing BOD or TSS greater than 400 milligrams per litre of the trade effluent or COD greater than 600 milligrams per litre of the trade effluent, shall” with “trade effluent pursuant to permission granted by the Board under paragraph (1), must”.

Amendment of regulation 13

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 13, delete paragraph (1).

Amendment of regulation 14

4. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 14, replace paragraph (2) with —

“(2) Any person who contravenes regulation 8(1), 9(1), 9A(1), 10(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) or (3) or 11(2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable —

(a)	on the first conviction for the offence, to a fine not exceeding $15,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $500 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction; and
(b)	on a second or subsequent conviction for the same offence, to a fine not exceeding $30,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 30/2008; S 46/2013; S 710/2014; S 73/2015; S 590/2015; S 483/2016; S 919/2021; S 911/2023; S 249/2024; S 546/2024]

Made on 24 February 2025.

CHIANG CHIE FOO

Chairperson,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[MSE C030/01/120; AG/LEGIS/SL/294/2020/2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 74(3) of the Sewerage and Drainage Act 1999).

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