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Environmental Pollution Control Act

(Chapter 94A)

Environmental Pollution Control Act (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 76(1) of the Environmental Pollution Control Act, the Minister for the Environment hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Environmental Pollution Control Act (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2004 and shall come into operation on 15th September 2004.

Amendment of Second Schedule

2. Part I of the Second Schedule to the Environmental Pollution Control Act is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately below the item “Ammonium chlorate”, the following item:

“

Ammonium nitrate

Aqueous solutions containing less than 60%, weight in weight, of ammonium nitrate.

”.

(b)

by inserting, immediately below the item “Asbestos in the form of crocidolite, amosite, chrysotile and amphiboles and products containing these forms of asbestos”, the following item:

“

Barium nitrate

Preparations and solutions containing less than 10%, weight in weight, of barium nitrate.

”.

(c)

by inserting, immediately below the item “Germane”, the following item:

“

Guanidine nitrate

”.

(d)

by inserting, immediately below the item “Potassium hydroxide”, the following items:

“

Potassium nitrate

Preparations and solutions containing less than 5%, weight in weight, of potassium nitrate or a combination of both potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate.

Potassium nitrite

Aqueous solutions containing less than 5%, weight in weight, of potassium nitrite.

”.

(e)

by inserting, immediately below the item “Sodium hydroxide”, the following items:

“

Sodium nitrate

Preparations and solutions containing less than 5%, weight in weight, of sodium nitrate or a combination of both sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate.

Sodium nitrite

Aqueous solutions containing less than 5%, weight in weight, of sodium nitrite.

”.

Made this 11th day of August 2004.

TAN YONG SOON

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment,
Singapore.

[ENV/NEA/LD/39/2.1; AG/LEG/SL/94A/2003/1 Vol. 1]