Building Control (Environmental Sustainability) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

No. S 256

Building Control Act

(Chapter 29)

Building Control (Environmental Sustainability) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 49 of the Building Control Act, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Building Control (Environmental Sustainability) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and shall come into operation on 5th May 2010.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Building Control (Environmental Sustainability) Regulations 2008 (G.N. No. S 199/2008) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “existing building”, the following definition:

“ “Green Mark Certification” means certification under the BCA Green Mark Certification Standard for New Buildings approved by the Commissioner of Building Control and issued by the Building and Construction Authority;”.

Amendment of regulation 4

3. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the minimum requirement for any building works to which these Regulations apply shall, subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), be the following:

(a)	where the building works relate to a residential building not referred to in sub-paragraph (c) — a Green Mark score of 50 points calculated in accordance with the Code;
(b)	where the building works relate to a non-residential building not referred to in sub-paragraph (c) — a Green Mark score of 50 points calculated in accordance with the Code; and
(c)	where the building works relate to any building on land sold on or after 5th May 2010 under the Government Land Sales Programme and the building is wholly or partly within an area described in the first column of the Schedule — the relevant Green Mark Certification indicated in the second column of the Schedule.”;

(b)

by deleting the words “Green Mark score in paragraph (1)(a) or (b)” in paragraphs (2) and (3) and substituting in each case the words “Green Mark score or relevant Green Mark Certification in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c)”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “Green Mark score” in the regulation heading, the words “and relevant Green Mark Certification”.

Amendment of regulation 5

4. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “purposes of these Regulations” and substituting the words “purposes of regulation 4(1)(a) or (b)”.

Amendment of regulation 6

5. Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) The qualified person appointed under section 8(1)(a) or 11(1)(d)(i) of the Act to prepare the plans of any building works in accordance with the Act shall ensure that the building works are designed with physical features or amenities, and may be carried out using methods and materials, so that —

(a)	the total (using the scoring methodology specified in the Code) of all numerical scores assigned by every appropriate practitioner who assesses the building works or part thereof is not less than the minimum Green Mark score applicable to those building works; or
(b)	the relevant Green Mark Certification is achievable in respect of those building works.”.

Amendment of regulation 7

6. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “the developer of any building works”, the words “that is subject to a minimum Green Mark score”.

Amendment of regulation 8

7. Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “building works or proposed building works”, the words “that is subject to a minimum Green Mark score”.

Amendment of regulation 9

8. Regulation 9(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “not accompanied by”, the words “a Green Mark Certificate to show that the required Green Mark Certification has been achieved or where the works are subject to a minimum Green Mark score”.

New Schedule

9. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 10, the following Schedule:

“THE SCHEDULE

Regulation 4(1)(c)

Area

Requirement for building wholly or partly within area that is on land sold under the Government Land Sales Programme

Area within blue boundary in Map 1

Green Mark Platinum Rating

Area within red boundary in Map 1

Green Mark GoldPlus Rating

Area within red boundary in Map 2

Green Mark GoldPlus Rating

Area within red boundary in Map 3

Green Mark GoldPlus Rating

Area within red boundary in Map 4

Green Mark GoldPlus Rating

Map 1

[Central Area]

Map 2

[Jurong Gateway]

Map 3

[Paya Lebar Central]

Map 4

[Kallang Riverside]

”.

Made this 5th day of May 2010.

TAN TEE HOW

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND 202/1-19 V 13; AG/LLRD/SL/29/2002/2 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 52 of the Building Control Act).

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