No. S 405
Sewerage and Drainage Act
(Chapter 294)
Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 72 and 74 of the Sewerage and Drainage Act, the Public Utilities Board, 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 Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 9th August 2008.
New regulation 2A
2.  The Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 2, the following regulation:
Application
2A.  The charges specified in regulations 3 and 4 shall apply in respect of any billing for such charges made on or after 9th August 2008.”.
Amendment of regulation 3
3.  Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting “$3” in paragraphs (a) to (d) and substituting in each case “$2.8037”.
Amendment of regulation 4
4.  Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “30 cents” in paragraph (a) and substituting “$0.2803”; and
(b)by deleting the words “60 cents” in paragraph (b) and substituting “$0.5607”.
Amendment of regulation 6
5.  Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is amended —
(a)by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
(1)  The charges payable under regulations 3 and 4 are not inclusive of goods and services tax chargeable under the Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A) on the services in respect of which the charges are payable, and the person responsible for paying such charges shall, in addition to such charges, bear and pay the goods and services tax charged on the supply of services at the rate prevailing at the time of such supply.”; and
(b)by deleting the words “Power Supply Ltd.” in paragraph (2) and substituting the words “its billing agent”.

Made this 11th day of August 2008.

TAN GEE PAW
Chairman,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.
[MEWR 030/01.124 Vol. 9; AG/LEG/SL/294/2002/1 Vol. 3]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 74(2) of the Sewerage and Drainage Act).