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No. S 336

Public Utilities Act

(CHAPTER 261)

Public Utilities (Water Supply)
(Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2017

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 72 of the Public Utilities Act, the Public Utilities Board, with the approval of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Public Utilities (Water Supply) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2017 and come into operation on 30 June 2017.

Amendment of regulation 40H

2. Regulation 40H of the Public Utilities (Water Supply) Regulations (Rg 5) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “business activity of the consumer” in paragraph (1), the words “(other than a business activity that comprises wholly of construction)”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (5), the following paragraph:

“(6) In this regulation, “construction”, in relation to a business activity, means any one or more of the following:

(a)	the erection, construction, alteration, repair or maintenance of buildings, structures or roads;
(b)	the breaking up, opening or boring under any road or adjacent land in connection with the construction, inspection, maintenance or removal of works;
(c)	piling, demolition or dredging works;
(d)	any other work of engineering construction.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 97/2005; S 703/2008; S 832/2010; S 161/2011; S 616/2013; S 721/2014; S 826/2014; S 55/2015; S 133/2017]

Made on 29 June 2017.

CHIANG CHIE FOO

Chairman,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[MEWR S030/01/124 Vol. 15; AG/LEGIS/SL/261/2015/3 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 72(4) of the Public Utilities Act).