Environmental Protection and Management (Off-Road Diesel Engine Emissions) Regulations 2012

No. S 299

Environmental Protection and Management Act

(CHAPTER 94A)

Environmental Protection and Management
(Off-Road Diesel Engine Emissions)
Regulations 2012

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12(5) and 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, hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection and Management (Off-Road Diesel Engine Emissions) Regulations 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2012.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“diesel engine” means an internal combustion engine which operates by burning diesel;

“examiner” means a testing facility accredited by the Singapore Accreditation Council or any of its Mutual Recognition Arrangement partners as being able to perform exhaust emission tests for off-road diesel engines in accordance with ISO 8178 test procedures;

“motor vehicle” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act (Cap. 276);

“off-road diesel engine” means a diesel engine except —

(a)	a diesel engine that propels an aircraft, a railway locomotive or a vessel; and
(b)	a diesel engine to which regulation 4 or 6 of the Environmental Protection and Management (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations (Cap. 94A, Rg 6) applies;

“owner”, in relation to an off-road diesel engine, means —

(a)	each person who is the owner, joint owner or part owner of the off-road diesel engine; or
(b)	a person who has the use or control of the off-road diesel engine under a credit agreement, hiring agreement, hire-purchase agreement or leasing arrangement,

but does not include any person provided to operate the off‑road diesel engine or machinery in which the off-road diesel engine is installed as part of a hiring agreement for the off‑road diesel engine or machinery;

“railway” has the same meaning as in the Railways Act (Cap. 263) but does not include any rapid transit system set up under the Rapid Transit Systems Act (Cap. 263A);

“vessel” includes any ship or boat or air-cushioned vehicle or floating rig or platform used in any form of operations in or on water or any other description of vessel;

“visiting force” has the same meaning as in the Visiting Forces Act (Cap. 344).

Application

3. These Regulations do not apply to any off-road diesel engine —

(a)	owned by the Government for the use of the Singapore Armed Forces, the Singapore Police Force or the Singapore Civil Defence Force; or
(b)	used by or used for the purpose of any visiting force lawfully present in Singapore.

Made this 22nd day of June 2012.

CHEW GEK KHIM

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/168/V.1/1; AG/LLRD/SL/94A/2010/12 Vol. 1]

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

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