Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

No. S 17

Environmental Public Health Act

(Chapter 95)

Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 111 of the Environmental Public Health Act, the National Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2009.

Amendment of regulation 3

2. Regulation 3 of the Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations (Rg 3) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1), the following paragraph:

(b)

by deleting the words “Every such refuse bin” in paragraph (2) and substituting the words “Every refuse bin referred to in paragraph (1) or (1A)”;

(c)

by deleting sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (2); and

(d)

by deleting sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph (2) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(e)	maintained and kept in good repair by the occupier, and replaced by him when necessary or if he is directed to do so by the Director-General or by an authorised officer;”.

Amendment of regulation 4

3. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1), the following paragraph:

“(1A) A public waste collector licensee providing the service of collecting and removing refuse in any area specified in the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth or Eleventh Schedule shall provide, to each occupier of any building or land located in that area (being any building or land which, by the nature of the trade, manufacture or business at any time carried on therein, produces trade refuse), one or more covered receptacles for trade refuse (being receptacles made of such material as may be approved by the Director-General from time to time, and of such shape, size and design as may be so approved) as may be necessary.”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(2) Every receptacle for trade refuse referred to in paragraph (1) or (1A) shall be —

(a)	maintained and kept in good repair by the occupier; and
(b)	replaced by him when necessary or if he is directed to do so by the Director-General or by an authorised officer.”.

Amendment of regulation 24

4. Regulation 24 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) Any person who takes any refuse, matter or thing to a refuse disposal ground maintained by the Director-General for disposal thereat, to an incineration plant maintained by the Director-General for burning thereat, or to an incineration plant maintained or operated by a waste disposal licensee for burning thereat, shall —

(a)

permit the refuse, matter or thing to be weighed at a weigh-bridge;

(b)

unload and deposit the refuse, matter or thing in accordance with any directions that may be given by —

(i)	an authorised officer, if the refuse, matter or thing is taken to a refuse disposal ground or an incineration plant maintained by the Director-General; or
(ii)	any person authorised by the waste disposal licensee to give such directions, if the refuse, matter or thing is taken to an incineration plant maintained or operated by the waste disposal licensee; and

(c)

pay any fee that may be required in accordance with the First Schedule.”.

Amendment of First Schedule

5. The First Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph 2, the following paragraph:

“2A. For any refuse, matter or thing conveyed to the Keppel Seghers Tuas Waste to Energy Plant (referred to in this paragraph as the Plant) by any person at his expense for burning thereat, which refuse, matter or thing any person authorised by the waste disposal licensee maintaining or operating the Plant, in his discretion, accepts for burning —

(a)

For cashless mode of payment

(i)	Disposal Base Gate Fee
	$0.77 for every 0.01 tonne or part thereof;
(ii)	Peak Period Surcharge
	Nil.

(b)

For payment by cash at the weigh-bridge of the Plant

(i)	Disposal Base Gate Fee
	$0.79 for every 0.01 tonne or part thereof;
(ii)	Peak Period Surcharge
	Nil.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 221/2000; S 49/2001; S 176/2001; S 244/2001; S 287/2001; S 316/2001; S 359/2001; S 360/2001; S 199/2002; S 377/2004; S 639/2004; S 589/2005; S 168/2006; S 500/2006; S 712/2006]

Made this 6th day of January 2009.

CHEW GEK KHIM

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/38/2 V.5.8; MEWR 030/01/101; AG/LEG/SL/95/2002/1 Vol. 5]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 111(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act).

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