No. S 41
Environmental Protection and Management Act
(Chapter 94A)
Environmental Pollution Control (Hazardous Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 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:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Pollution Control (Hazardous Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 31st January 2008.
Amendment of title
2.  The Environmental Pollution Control (Hazardous Substances) Regulations (Rg 4) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) are amended by deleting the words “ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION CONTROL” in the title and substituting the words “ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT”.
Amendment of regulation 1
3.  Regulation 1 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “Environmental Pollution Control” and substituting the words “Environmental Protection and Management”.
Amendment of regulation 14
4.  Regulation 14(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “21 years” in paragraph (b) and substituting the words “18 years”.
New regulation 23A
5.  The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 23, the following regulation:
Notification of loss or theft of hazardous substances
23A.  In the event of discovery of any loss or theft of any hazardous substance, the consignor or owner of any consignment of a hazardous substance or any person authorised to transport or store hazardous substance shall directly or through his agent or employee —
(a)immediately notify the loss or theft (as the case may be) to the police and the Director-General; and
(b)as soon as practicable, furnish to the Director-General a detailed report in writing on the following:
(i)the circumstances leading to the loss or theft (as the case may be); and
(ii)the measures taken by him to prevent a recurrence of the loss or theft (as the case may be).”.
Amendment of regulation 24
6.  Regulation 24 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or 23” and substituting the words “, 23 or 23A”.
Deletion and substitution of Schedule
7.  The Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:
THE SCHEDULE
Regulations 3 and 17
Hazardous Substances
Substance
 
Quantity (kgs)
1,2-dibromoethane (EDB)
 
0
Acetic acid
 
1,000
Acetyl bromide
 
0
Allyl isothiocyanate
 
0
Ammonia (35% or greater)
 
500
Ammonia (less than 35%)
 
1,000
Antimony pentachloride
 
50
Antimony trihydride
 
0
Arsine
 
0
Arsenical substances
 
50
Boric acid; Sodium borate
 
5,000
Boron tribromide
 
0
Boron trichloride
 
50
Boron trifluoride
 
50
Bromine; Bromine solutions
 
50
Captafol
 
0
Carbamates, excepting —
 
0
Bendiocarb
 
 
BPMC (Fenobucarb)
 
 
Mercaptodimethur (methiocarb)
 
 
Carbon monoxide
 
1,000
Carbon tetrafluoride
 
500
Chlorinated hydrocarbons
 
0
Chlorine
 
500
Chlorine trifluoride
 
50
Chlorobenzenes
 
0
Chlorophenols
 
0
Chlorophenoxyacids; their salts, esters, amines
 
0
Chlorosilanes
 
50
Chlorosulphonic acid
 
50
Chromic acid
 
50
Cyanides
 
50
Diborane
 
50
Dibromochloropropane
 
50
Diethyl sulphate
 
500
Epichlorohydrin
 
50
Ethyl mercaptan
 
50
Ethlylene dichloride
 
0
Ethylene imine
 
0
Ethylene oxide
 
50
Ferric chloride
 
1,000
Fipronil
 
5,000
Fluorine
 
0
Fluoroacetamide
 
0
Formic acid
 
1,000
Germane
 
0
Hydrazine anhydrous; Hydrazine aqueous solutions
 
50
Hydrochloric acid
 
1,000
Hydrofluoric acid
 
500
Hydrogen chloride
 
500
Hydrogen cyanide; Hydrocyanic acid
 
0
Hydrogen selenide
 
0
Isocyanates
 
500
Lead tetra-ethyl and similar lead containing compounds in petrol intended for use in Singapore as a fuel for motor vehicles
 
0
Mercury compounds including inorganic mercury compounds, alkyl mercury compounds, alkyloxyalkyl and aryl mercury compounds, and other organic compounds of mercury
 
0
Metanil yellow (sodium salt of metanilylazo-diphenylamine)
 
5,000
Methyl bromide
 
50
Methyl chloride
 
50
Methyl mercaptan
 
50
Monomethyltetrachloro diphenyl methane
 
0
Monomethyl-dichloro-diphenyl methane
 
0
Monomethyl-dibromodiphenyl methane
 
0
Neonicotinoid compounds used as pesticides
 
5,000
Nitric acid (95% or greater)
 
50
Nitric acid (less than 95%)
 
1,000
Nitric oxide
 
0
Nitrogen trifluoride
 
50
Oleum
 
50
Orange II [sodium salt of p-(2-hydroxy-1-naphthylazo) benzenesulphonic acid]
 
5,000
Organic peroxides
 
500
Organo-tin compounds
 
0
Perchloromethyl mercaptan
 
50
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)
 
0
Phenols
 
500
Phosgene
 
0
Phosphides
 
0
Phosphine
 
0
Phosphorus compounds, excepting —
 
0
Dimethoate
 
 
Fenchlorphos
 
 
Fenitrothion
 
 
Phenthoate
 
 
Profenophos
 
 
Prothiophos
 
 
Quinalphos
 
 
Phosphorus oxybromide
 
0
Phosphorus oxychloride
 
50
Phosphorus pentabromide
 
0
Phosphorus pentachloride
 
50
Phosphorus pentafluoride
 
50
Phosphorus trichloride
 
50
Polybrominated biphenyls
 
0
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
 
0
Polychlorinated biphenyls
 
0
Polychlorinated terphenyls
 
0
Potassium hydroxide
 
1,000
Prochloraz
 
0
Pyrethroid compounds used as pesticides
 
5,000
Sodium azide
 
0
Sodium hydroxide
 
1,000
Sulphur in diesel intended for use in Singapore as a fuel for motor vehicles or industrial plants
 
0
Sulphur tetrafluoride
 
0
Sulphur trioxide
 
50
Sulphuric acid
 
1,000
Sulphuryl chloride
 
0
Sulphuryl fluoride
 
0
Tetraethyl lead, tetramethyl lead and similar lead containing compounds
 
0
Titanium tetrachloride
 
1,000
Tris (2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate
 
0
Tungsten hexafluoride
 
0”.
[G.N. Nos. S 77/2005; S 713/2006; S 295/2007]

Made this 28th day of January 2008.

SIMON TAY SEONG CHEE
Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.
[NEA/LD/39/2/V. 2/; AG/LEG/SL/94A/2003/1 Vol. 2]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 77(3) of the Environmental Protection and Management Act).