Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2019

No. S 444

Environmental Public Health Act

(CHAPTER 95)

Environmental Public Health
(General Waste Disposal Facility — Exemption)
Regulations 2019

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 110(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act, the National Environment Agency makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 30 June 2019.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“design capacity” means the amount of general waste (measured in tonnes per day) that a general waste disposal facility is designed to receive and process;

“general waste” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Public Health (General Waste Collection) Regulations (Rg 12);

“general waste disposal facility” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility) Regulations 2017 (G.N. No. S 380/2017).

Exemption

3.—(1) A person that constructs, establishes, maintains or operates any general waste disposal facility specified in the Schedule is exempt from section 23(1) of the Act.

(2) Where the general waste disposal facility is specified in paragraph 1 of the Schedule, the exemption in paragraph (1) is subject to the condition that the person declares to the Director‑General, once every 2 years and in such form and manner as the Director‑General requires, that the facility has a design capacity of below 5 tonnes of general waste per day.

Revocation

4. The Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2017 (G.N. No. S 381/2017) are revoked.

Made on 13 June 2019.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/42V.1; AG/LEGIS/SL/95/2015/6 Vol. 1]

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

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