Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 02 Apr 2018

No. S 189

Environmental Protection and
Management Act

(CHAPTER 94A)

Environmental Protection and Management
(Vehicular Emissions) (Amendment)
Regulations 2018

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1) of the Environmental Protection and Management Act, the National Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and are deemed to have come into operation on 1 April 2018.

Amendment of Fifth Schedule

2. The Fifth Schedule to the Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations (Rg 6) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph 3C, the following paragraph:

“3D.—(1) Paragraphs 3, 3A, 3B and 3C do not apply to any petrol driven motor car or any motor cycle or scooter that is registered as —

(a)	a classic vehicle;
(b)	a normal vintage vehicle;
(c)	a restricted vintage vehicle; or
(d)	a revised use vintage vehicle.

(2) Where any petrol driven motor car is registered as a vehicle mentioned in sub‑paragraph (1) and has an original first registration date falling within a period specified in the first column of the following table, the level of CO and HC emitted from the exhaust of such a motor car must not exceed the emission limits, if any, specified opposite in the second column of that table:

First column

Second column

Original first registration date
of motor car

Emission limits

Measured at idle speed

CO (percentage
by volume)

HC (ppm)

(a)	Before 1 October 1986

6.0

No limit

(b)	On or after 1 October 1986 but before 1 July 1992

4.5

No limit

(c)	On or after 1 July 1992 but before 1 January 2001

3.5

No limit

(3) Where any motor cycle or scooter is registered as a vehicle mentioned in sub‑paragraph (1) and has an original first registration date falling within a period specified in the first column of the following table, the level of CO and HC emitted from the exhaust of such a motor cycle or scooter must not exceed the emission limits, if any, specified opposite in the second column of that table:

First column

Second column

Original first registration date
of motor cycle or scooter

Emission limits

Measured at idle speed

CO (percentage
by volume)

HC (ppm)

(a)	Before 1 October 1986

6.0

No limit

(b)	On or after 1 October 1986 but before 1 July 2003

4.5

No limit

”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately before the definition of “CO” in paragraph 6, the following definitions:

“ “classic vehicle”, “normal vintage vehicle”, “restricted vintage vehicle” and “revised use vintage vehicle” have the same meanings as in rule 2(1) of the Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Registration and Licensing) Rules (Cap. 276, R 5);”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “lambda” in paragraph 6, the following definition:

“ “original first registration date”, in relation to a classic vehicle, normal vintage vehicle, restricted vintage vehicle or revised use vintage vehicle, means —

(a)	in a case where the motor vehicle was registered for the first time under the law relating to motor vehicles of more than one country — the earliest date of first registration; or
(b)	in a case where the motor vehicle was registered for the first time under the law relating to motor vehicles of only one country — the date the motor vehicle was registered for the first time under that law;”.

[G.N. Nos. S 625/2008; S 564/2010; S 301/2012; S 765/2013; S 766/2013; S 199/2014; S 609/2014; S 372/2016; S 26/2017; S 396/2017; S 480/2017; S 781/2017]

Made on 29 March 2018.

LIAK TENG LIT

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/40V.2; AG/LEGIS/SL/94A/2015/6 Vol. 3]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 77(3) of the Environmental Protection and Management Act).

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