Sewerage and Drainage (Trade Effluent) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

No. S 46

Sewerage and Drainage Act

(CHAPTER 294)

Sewerage and Drainage
(Trade Effluent) (Amendment)
Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 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 (Trade Effluent) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st February 2013.

Amendment of regulation 3

2. Regulation 3 of the Sewerage and Drainage (Trade Effluent) Regulations (Rg 5) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting paragraph (2).

Amendment of regulation 4

3. Regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “referred to in section 16(1) of the Act” and substituting the words “made pursuant to section 16(1) or 16A(1) of the Act, as the case may be,”.

Amendment of regulation 9

4. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (j).

Amendment of regulation 11

5. Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(3) Any person may, with the prior permission of the Board, dispose of effluent or organic sludge that is transported by vehicle to any sewage treatment works specified by the Board, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed by the Board and such person.”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (5) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(5) An application for the permission of the Board under paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee computed in accordance with the scale set out in the Fourth Schedule.”.

Amendment of regulation 13

6. Regulation 13(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “these Regulations” and substituting the words “regulation 11(5)”.

New regulation 13A

7. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 13, the following regulation:

“Late payment of fees

13A.—(1) Where —

(a)	a person who is liable to pay any specified fee fails to pay the whole or any part of the fee in accordance with a bill issued to him; and
(b)	the whole or any part of the specified fee remains unpaid immediately prior to the issue to him of the next bill,

that next bill shall include, and the person shall be liable to pay, a late payment charge of 1% of the amount remaining unpaid.

(2) In this regulation, “specified fee” means —

(a)	any fee referred to in regulation 11(5);
(b)	any late payment fee to which section 35 of the Sewerage and Drainage (Amendment) Act 2012 (Act 10 of 2012) applies in relation to the fee imposed under regulation 11(5) in operation immediately before 1st February 2013; or
(c)	any late payment charge imposed pursuant to this regulation.”.

[G.N. No. S 30/2008]

Made this 30th day of January 2013.

TAN GEE PAW

Chairman,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[MEWR C030/01/124 Vol. 11; AG/LLRD/SL/294/2010/5 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 74(2) of the Sewerage and Drainage Act).

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