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No. S 539

Fire Safety Act

(CHAPTER 109A)

Fire Safety
(Fire Emergency Plan) (Amendment)
Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 61 of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Safety (Fire Emergency Plan) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2013.

Amendment of regulation 1

2. Regulation 1 of the Fire Safety (Fire Emergency Plan) Regulations (Rg 4) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words “Fire Emergency Plan” and substituting the words “Emergency Response Plan”.

Amendment of regulation 2

3. Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “designated premises” and substituting the following definitions:

“ “Arson Prevention Plan”, in relation to any specified premises, means a plan which contains information on the preventive measures which are to be adopted in the specified premises to safeguard against arson and such other threats which could result in fire;

“designated premises” means any premises or class of premises which are designated in the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Emergency Response Plan) Notification 2013 (G.N. No. S 538/2013);

“Emergency Response Plan”, in relation to any designated premises, means a plan which contains information on the types of fire safety measures that are provided for in the designated premises, and includes —

(a)	the floor layout plans of the building;
(b)	actions to take in the event of fire and related emergencies and evacuation procedures for the premises; and
(c)	in the case of specified premises, the Arson Prevention Plan for the building;”; and

(b)

by deleting the definition of “Fire Emergency Plan” and substituting the following definition:

“ “specified premises” means any premises or class of premises which are specified in the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) Notification 2013 (G.N. No. S 537/2013).”.

Amendment of regulation 3

4. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

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

“(a)

prepare an Emergency Response Plan for the premises —

(i)	on or before 1st March 2014, in the case of premises which, on 31st August 2013, are premises designated in the cancelled Fire Safety (Designation of Premises Requiring Fire Emergency Plan) Notification (N 2) and which continue thereafter until 1st March 2014 to be premises designated in the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Emergency Response Plan) Notification 2013; or
(ii)	in any other case, within 6 months after such date as is on or after 1st September 2013 that the premises become designated premises;”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “Fire Emergency Plan” in paragraphs (b), (d), (e), (f) and (h) and substituting in each case the words “Emergency Response Plan”.

Amendment of regulation 4

5. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “a Fire Emergency Plan” in paragraph (a) and substituting the words “an Emergency Response Plan”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “Fire Emergency Plan” wherever they appear in paragraphs (c) and (e) and substituting in each case the words “Emergency Response Plan”.

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/2010/6 Vol. 1]