Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) (Amendment) Notification 2015

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Jul 2015

No. S 408

Fire Safety Act

(CHAPTER 109A)

Fire Safety
(Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager
and Company Emergency Response Team)
(Amendment) Notification 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22(1) of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification may be cited as the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) (Amendment) Notification 2015 and comes into operation on 1 July 2015.

Amendment of paragraph 3

2. Paragraph 3 of the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) Notification 2013 (G.N. No. S 537/2013) is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the words “a fire safety manager”, the words “certified under regulation 10(5) or (5A) of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations (Rg 3)”;
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the words “a Company Emergency Response Team”, a comma; and
(c)	by inserting, immediately after the words “fire safety manager” in the paragraph heading, the words “certified under regulation 10(5) or (5A) of Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations”.

New paragraph 3A

3. The Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) Notification 2013 is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph 3, the following paragraph:

“Premises requiring fire safety manager certified under regulation 10(5A) of Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations and Company Emergency Response Team

3A.—(1) For the purposes of section 22 of the Act, the premises in sub-paragraph (2) are specified to be premises in respect of which the owner or occupier must —

(a)	appoint a fire safety manager certified under regulation 10(5A) of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations (Rg 3); and
(b)	establish and maintain a Company Emergency Response Team.

(2) The premises are premises referred to in paragraph 3(a) or (b) —

(a)

that has an occupant load of 5,000 persons or more and —

(i)	that is of 31 storeys or more (including any basement) in height;
(ii)	that has a gross floor area of 50,000 square metres or more; or
(iii)	that has a basement storey with a gross floor area of 10,000 square metres or more; or

(b)

in respect of which fire safety works are carried out according to a plan using an alternative solution the Commissioner may reasonably determine to be complex.”.

Made on 25 June 2015.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/030; AG/LLRD/SL/109A/2010/9 Vol. 1]

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