Environmental Public Health (Cemeteries) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

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on 31 Mar 2021

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No. S 204

Environmental Public Health Act

(CHAPTER 95)

Environmental Public Health
(Cemeteries) (Amendment)
Regulations 2021

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 Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Environmental Public Health (Cemeteries) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 1 April 2021.

Deletion and substitution of Schedule

2. The Schedule to the Environmental Public Health (Cemeteries) Regulations (Rg 9) is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“THE SCHEDULE

Regulation 12

FEES

1.	Fees for burials:

Adults and children
of and above
10 years of age

Children
below 10 years
of age

(a)	where the deceased person is a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore:

(i)	Chua Chu Kang Muslim Cemetery

$315

$140

(ii)	Chua Chu Kang Ahmaddiya Jama’at Cemetery

$315

$140

(iii)

Chua Chu Kang Jewish Cemetery

$315

$140

(iv)	Chua Chu Kang Parsi Cemetery

$315

$140

(v)	Chua Chu Kang Bahai Cemetery

$315

$140

(vi)	all Government cemeteries other than those mentioned in sub‑paragraphs (i) to (v)

$940

$420

(b)	where the deceased person is not a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore

$1,880

$940

2.	Licence for exhumation

$14 per grave

3.	Miscellaneous fees:

(a)	search fee

$20

(b)	certified extract from register of burials

$20

Note:

In this Schedule, “permanent resident of Singapore” means a person who, at the time of death, was a person who was granted an entry permit under section 10 of the Immigration Act (Cap. 133) or a re-entry permit under section 11 of that Act, which allowed the person to remain in Singapore indefinitely without restriction.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 147/2000; S 494/2000; S 715/2006; S 555/2010; S 791/2014]

Made on 30 March 2021.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/176; AG/LEGIS/SL/95/2020/7 Vol. 1]

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