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No. S 537

Fire Safety Act

(CHAPTER 109A)

Fire Safety
(Premises Requiring Fire Safety
Manager and Company Emergency
Response Team) Notification 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22(1) of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Notification:

Citation and commencement

1. This Notification may be cited as the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) Notification 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2013.

Definitions

2. In this Notification —

“certificate of statutory completion” means a certificate of statutory completion issued under the Building Control Act (Cap. 29), and includes a certificate of fitness for occupation issued under the repealed Building Control Act (Cap. 29, 1985 Ed.);

“industrial purposes” means uses within Use Class VII, VIII or IX as specified in the Schedule to the Planning (Use Classes) Rules (Cap. 232, R 2);

“temporary occupation permit” means a temporary occupation permit issued under the Building Control Act.

Premises requiring fire safety manager and Company Emergency Response Team

3. The following premises are specified to be premises in respect of which the owner or occupier must appoint a fire safety manager and establish and maintain a Company Emergency Response Team in accordance with section 22 of the Act:

(a)

any public building in respect of which is issued a certificate of statutory completion or a temporary occupation permit that —

(i)	is of 9 storeys or more (including any basement) in height;
(ii)	is used, constructed or adapted to be used as a hospital;
(iii)	has a floor area of 5,000 square metres or more; or
(iv)	has an occupant load of 1,000 persons or more;

(b)

any premises used for industrial purposes and in respect of which is issued a certificate of statutory completion or a temporary occupation permit, and that —

(i)	has a floor area or site area of 5,000 square metres or more; or
(ii)	has an occupant load of 1,000 persons or more.

Cancellation

4. The Fire Safety (Specification of Premises Requiring Fire Safety Managers) Notification (N 1) is cancelled.

Made this 23rd day of August 2013.

TAN TEE HOW

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA 112/2/030; AG/LLRD/SL/109A/2010/9 Vol. 1]