Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009

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No. S 405

Environmental Public Health Act

(Chapter 95)

Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 111 of the Environmental Public Health 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 Public Health (Public Cleansing) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2009.

Amendment of regulation 24

2. Regulation 24 of the Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations (Rg 3) is amended by deleting paragraph (4) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(4) The Director-General may, in his discretion and without assigning any reason, refuse to accept any refuse, matter or other thing for the purpose of disposal, burning or treatment at any refuse disposal ground or incineration plant maintained by him.

(5) A waste disposal licensee may refuse to accept any refuse, matter or other thing for burning at any incineration plant maintained or operated by him, if —

(a)	such refuse, matter or thing is unsuitable for, or cannot be safely disposed of by, burning at the incineration plant; or
(b)	the Director-General has permitted him to do so.”.

Amendment of First Schedule

3. The First Schedule to the Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations is amended —

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

“1. For any refuse, matter or thing conveyed to the Senoko Waste-to-Energy Plant (referred to in this paragraph as the Plant) by any person at his expense for burning thereat, which refuse, matter or thing any person authorised by the waste disposal licensee maintaining or operating the Plant accepts for burning —

(a)

For cashless mode of payment

(i)	Disposal Base Gate Fee
	$0.81 for every 0.01 tonne or part thereof;
(ii)	Peak Period Surcharge
	Nil.

(b)

For payment by cash at the weigh-bridge of the Plant

(i)	Disposal Base Gate Fee
	$0.83 for every 0.01 tonne or part thereof;
(ii)	Peak Period Surcharge
	Nil.”; and

(b)	by deleting the words “, in his discretion,” in paragraphs 2 and 2A. [G.N. Nos. S 221/2000; S 49/2001; S 176/2001; S 244/2001; S 287/2001; S 316/2001; S 359/2001; S 360/2001; S 199/2002; S 377/2004; S 639/2004; S 589/2005; S 168/2006; S 500/2006; S 712/2006; S 17/2009]

Made this 28th day of August 2009.

CHEW GEK KHIM

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/38/2 V.5.8; MEWR 030/01/101; AG/LEG/SL/95/2002/1 Vol. 6]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 111(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act).