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No. S 265

Environmental Pollution Control Act

(Chapter 94A)

Environmental Pollution Control (Trade Effluent) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1) of the Environmental Pollution Control 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 Pollution Control (Trade Effluent) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st May 2005.

Amendment of regulation 10

2. Regulation 10 of the Environmental Pollution Control (Trade Effluent) Regulations (Rg 5) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of paragraph (3);

(b)

by deleting sub-paragraphs (h) to (m) of paragraph (3) and substituting the following sub-paragraphs:

Limit for
discharge into
a watercourse other than
a controlled watercourse
in milligrams
per litre of
trade effluent

Limit for
discharge into
a controlled watercourse
in milligrams
per litre of
trade effluent

“(h)	Grease and Oil

10 (Total)
10 (Hydrocarbons)

1 (Total)

(i)

Arsenic

0.1

0.01

(j)

Barium

(k)	Iron (as Fe)

1”;

(c)

by deleting “0.01” in paragraph (5)(a) under the heading “Limit for discharge into a controlled watercourse in milligrams per litre of trade effluent” and substituting “0.003”;

(d)

by deleting sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (7) and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

“(d)	calcium and magnesium, expressed as Ca and Mg respectively, shall not exceed 150 milligrams per litre where the trade effluent is discharged into a controlled watercourse;”; and

(e)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph (7) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraphs:

“(f)	chloride, expressed as Cl^-, shall not exceed 250 milligrams per litre where the trade effluent is discharged into a controlled watercourse;
(g)	total dissolved solids shall not exceed 1,000 milligrams per litre where the trade effluent is discharged into a controlled watercourse;
(h)	sulphate, expressed as SO₄, shall not exceed 200 milligrams per litre where the trade effluent is discharged into a controlled watercourse;
(i)	tin shall not exceed 5 milligrams per litre where the trade effluent is discharged into a controlled watercourse; and
(j)	beryllium shall not exceed 0.5 milligram per litre where the trade effluent is discharged into a controlled watercourse.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

3. The principal Regulations are amended by deleting the word “Director” wherever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “Director-General”:

Regulations 3(1) (2nd and last lines), (2), (4) and (5), 4, 5, 6(1) and (2), 7 (2nd and last lines and regulation heading), 8(1), 10(1) and (2), 11 and 13.

Transitional provision

4.—(1) The new maximum concentration limits for substances which may be discharged into a watercourse or controlled watercourse, as specified in regulation 10 of the principal Regulations in force as from 1st May 2005, shall not apply to any licensed person during the prescribed period.

(2) The licensed person may, until the expiry of the prescribed period, continue to discharge trade effluent into such watercourse or controlled watercourse in compliance with the maximum concentration limits for such substances as specified in regulation 10 of the principal Regulations in force before 1st May 2005 as if these Regulations had not been enacted.

(3) In this regulation —

“licensed person” means a person who is permitted by a licence granted to him under section 15 of the Act before 1st May 2005 and which on that date remains in force to discharge trade effluent into any watercourse or controlled watercourse;

“prescribed period” means —

(a)	a period of 2 years from 1st May 2005; or
(b)	such longer period from 1st May 2005 as the Director-General may, on application of the licensed person, allow.

Made this 20th day of April 2005.

SIMON TAY SEONG CHEE

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/39/2 Vol. 3.3; AG/LEG/SL/94A/2003/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 77(3) of the Environmental Pollution Control Act).