Income Tax (Efficient Pollution Control Equipment) (Amendment) Rules 2001

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 09 Oct 2001

No. S 498

Income Tax Act

(Chapter 134)

Income Tax (Efficient Pollution Control Equipment) (Amendment) Rules 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7 and 19A(6)(c) of the Income Tax Act, the Minister for Finance hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Income Tax (Efficient Pollution Control Equipment) (Amendment) Rules 2001 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st October 2001.

Amendment of Schedule

2. The Schedule to the Income Tax (Efficient Pollution Control Equipment) Rules (R 10) is amended by deleting Part I and substituting the following Part:

“Part I

The emission levels of the following pollutants must not exceed the specified emission levels:

Pollutant

Standard Applicable To

Specified Levels

(1) Ammonia and ammonium compounds

Any trade, industry or process

50 mg/Nm³ expressed as ammonia

(2) Antimony and its compounds

Any trade, industry or process

3.5 mg/Nm³ expressed as antimony

(3) Arsenic and its compounds

Any trade, industry or process

0.75 mg/Nm³ expressed as arsenic

(4) Benzene

Any trade, industry or process

3.5 mg/Nm³

(5) Cadmium and its compounds

Any trade, industry or process

2 mg/Nm³ expressed as cadmium

(6) Carbon monoxide

Any trade, industry, process or fuel burning equipment

450 mg/Nm³

(7) Chlorine

Any trade, industry or process

20 mg/Nm³

(8) Copper and its compounds

Any trade, industry or process

3.5 mg/Nm³ expressed as copper

(9) Ethylene oxide

Any trade, industry or process

3.5 mg/Nm³

(10) Fluorine, hydrofluoric acid or inorganic fluorine compounds

Any trade, industry or process

35 mg/Nm³ expressed as hydrofluoric acid

(11) Formaldehyde

Any trade, industry or process

15 mg/Nm³

(12) Hydrogen chloride

Any trade, industry or process

100 mg/Nm³

(13) Hydrogen sulphide

Any trade, industry or process

4 mg/Nm³

(14) Lead and its compounds

Any trade, industry or process

3.5 mg/Nm³ expressed as lead

(15) Mercury and its compounds

Any trade, industry or process

2 mg/Nm³ expressed as mercury

(16) Oxides of nitrogen

Any trade, industry, process or fuel burning equipment

500 mg/Nm³ expressed as nitrogen dioxide

(17) Particulate substances including smoke, soot, dust, ash, fly-ash, cinders, cement, lime, alumina, grit and other solid particles of any kind

Any trade, industry, process, fuel burning equipment or industrial plant (except for any cold blast foundry cupolas)

50 mg/Nm³

(18) Styrene monomer

Any trade, industry or process

75 mg/Nm³

(19) Sulphur dioxide (non-combustion sources)

Any trade, industry or process

375 mg/Nm³

(20) Sulphur trioxide and other acid gases

The manufacture of sulphuric acid

375 mg/Nm³ expressed as sulphur trioxide

(21) Sulphur trioxide or sulphuric acid mist

Any trade, industry or process, other than any combustion process and any plant involving the manufacture of sulphuric acid

50 mg/Nm³ expressed as sulphur trioxide

(22) Vinyl chloride monomer

Any trade, industry or process

15 mg/Nm³

”.

Made this 4th day of October 2001.

LIM SIONG GUAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[MF(R) A9.1.047 V.6; AG/LEG/SL/134/1997/5 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 7(2) of the Income Tax Act).

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