Environmental Public Health (Employment of Environmental Control Officers) Order 1999

No. S 473

Environmental Public Health Act

(Chapter 95)

Environmental Public Health (Employment of Environmental Control Officers) Order 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 62(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act, the Minister for the Environment hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Environmental Public Health (Employment of Environmental Control Officers) Order 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st November 1999.

Definitions

2. In this Order —

“contract sum”, in relation to a construction site, means the total value of the works to be carried out on the construction site as stated in the applicable contract;

“works”, in relation to a construction site, means —

(a)	the erection, construction, alteration, repair or maintenance of buildings, structures or roads;
(b)	the breaking up or opening of, or boring under, any road or adjacent land in connection with the construction, inspection, maintenance or removal of works;
(c)	demolition or dredging works; or
(d)	any other work of engineering construction.

Application of this Order

3. This Order shall apply to any construction site the contract sum in relation to which exceeds $10 million.

Employment of Environmental Control Officer

4.—(1) Where the contract sum in relation to a construction site exceeds $50 million, the occupier of the construction site shall employ a competent person to act as an Environmental Control Officer in the construction site on a full-time basis.

(2) Where the contract sum in relation to a construction site exceeds $10 million but does not exceed $50 million, the occupier of the construction site shall employ a competent person to act as an Environmental Control Officer in the construction site on a part-time basis.

Full-time and part-time basis

5.—(1) An Environmental Control Officer employed on a full-time basis under paragraph 4(1) shall act as an Environmental Control Officer in the construction site for which he is employed for at least 40 hours per week.

(2) An Environmental Control Officer employed on a part-time basis under paragraph 4(2) shall act as an Environmental Control Officer in the construction site for which he is employed for at least 15 hours per week.

Made this 26th day of October 1999.

TAN GEE PAW

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment,
Singapore.

[ENV/LD/39/3.1.3; AG/LEG/SL/95/97/1 Vol. 1]

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