Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 13 Apr 2007

No. S 155

Fire Safety Act

(Chapter 109A)

Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 61(1)(a) of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2008.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations (Rg 3) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “occupant load”, the following definition:

“ “Programme” means the Continuing Professional Development Programme;”; and

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “Table-Top Exercises” and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:

“ “training cycle” means a period of 3 years commencing on 1st January 2008 (referred to hereinafter as the first training cycle) and each consecutive 3-year period after the first training cycle.”.

Deletion and substitution of regulations 9 and 10 and new regulation 10A

3. Regulations 9 and 10 of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations are deleted and the following regulations substituted therefor:

“Appointment of fire safety managers

9. The owner or occupier of any specified premises shall not appoint a person as a fire safety manager for his premises unless the person produces evidence that the person has been certified by the Commissioner under regulation 10.

Certification of fire safety managers by Commissioner

10.—(1) No person shall carry out any duty of a fire safety manager unless he is certified as a fire safety manager by the Commissioner.

(2) Any certification as a fire safety manager shall only be valid for the duration of such training cycle as may be specified in the certification.

(3) An application to be certified as a fire safety manager shall be made to the Commissioner —

(a)	in the case of a first application, at any time during a training cycle; and
(b)	in any other case, within 30 days before the end of any preceding training cycle,

except that the Commissioner may, in exceptional circumstances, allow such an application to be made after the applicant’s last certification as a fire safety manager has expired.

(4) An application under paragraph (3) shall be —

(a)	in such form and manner as the Commissioner may determine; and
(b)	accompanied by such documentary evidence of the applicant’s qualifications or experience as a fire safety manager as the Commissioner may require.

(5) The Commissioner may, with or without conditions, certify a person as a fire safety manager upon an application under paragraph (3) if that person —

(a)	holds such qualification in fire safety which in the opinion of the Commissioner is adequate to enable him to carry out his duties as a fire safety manager; and
(b)	is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, a fit and proper person to be appointed as a fire safety manager.

(6) Subject to paragraph (7), a certified fire safety manager may not continue to be certified as a fire safety manager for any subsequent training cycle unless he has, during the training cycle immediately preceding, obtained the requisite minimum number of points as may be determined by the Commissioner under regulation 10A(1).

(7) The Commissioner may, upon application by a fire safety manager who has failed to accumulate the requisite minimum number of points as required by paragraph (6), certify him as a fire safety manager for the next training cycle if he gives an undertaking that he will make up for the shortfall in the requisite minimum number of points within such time in that training cycle as the Commissioner may specify.

(8) The Commissioner may revoke the certification of any person who fails to make up for the shortfall in the requisite minimum number of points within such time as may be specified by the Commissioner under paragraph (7).

(9) Any such number of points obtained by the person under paragraph (7) to make up a shortfall in one training cycle shall be disregarded for the purposes of computing the requisite minimum number of points which he is required to obtain under paragraph (6) for certification as a fire safety manager for the next training cycle.

(10) Notwithstanding paragraphs (6) and (7), the Commissioner may, in such special circumstances as he may determine, certify a person to act as a fire safety manager even though the person has failed to obtain the requisite minimum number of points as required by paragraph (6).

Continuing Professional Development Programme

10A.—(1) A fire safety manager who is certified under regulation 10 shall be required to participate in the Programme and obtain such requisite minimum number of points during each training cycle as the Commissioner may determine.

(2) The Programme shall consist of such courses as are approved by the Commissioner.

(3) The Commissioner shall specify the number of points which a fire safety manager can earn for successfully completing any approved course.

(4) The Commissioner may, on application by any fire safety manager, approve any other course to be included in the Programme.

(5) Where —

(a)	a person is certified as a fire safety manager for any training cycle for the first time; and
(b)	he applies under regulation 10(3)(b) to continue to be certified as a fire safety manager for the next training cycle immediately following that training cycle,

then for the purpose of computing the requisite minimum number of points that he has to obtain during the training cycle for which he is first certified, the Commissioner may compute, on a pro-rata basis, the requisite minimum number of points having regard to the date the person is first certified.

(6) The Commissioner may —

(a)	permit points to be earned for any approved course published in an approved website which a fire safety manager has successfully attended between 1st June 2007 and 31st December 2007; and
(b)	permit the points earned in sub-paragraph (a) to be included for the purposes of computing the requisite minimum number of points a person has to obtain for the first training cycle.”.

Transitional provision

4. Any fire safety manager who is appointed under the repealed regulation 9 before the date of commencement of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007 shall be deemed to have his appointment terminated on that date.

[G.N. No. S 154/2007]

Made this 10th day of April 2007.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/030; AG/LEG/SL/109A/2002/2 Vol. 1]

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