Workplace Safety and Health (Registration of Factories) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

No. S 57

Workplace Safety and Health Act

(Chapter 354A)

Workplace Safety and Health (Registration of Factories) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 65 of the Workplace Safety and Health Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace Safety and Health (Registration of Factories) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2010.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Workplace Safety and Health (Registration of Factories) Regulations 2008 (G.N. No. S 501/2008) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately before the words “the First Schedule” in the definition of “pharmaceutical product”, the words “Part II of”.

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately before the words “the First Schedule”, the words “Part I or II of”.

Amendment of regulation 6

4. Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately before the words “the First Schedule” in paragraph (1), the words “Part I or II of”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraphs (5) and (6) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(5) A certificate of registration that is issued under paragraph (3)(a) in respect of any factory described in Part I of the First Schedule —

(a)	shall be valid for a period of 5 years, or for such other period as the Commissioner may determine in a particular case, unless it is earlier revoked in accordance with these Regulations; and
(b)	may, on payment of the appropriate fee specified in the Second Schedule, be renewed by the Commissioner for 5 years or such other period as the Commissioner may determine in a particular case, from the date immediately following that on which, but for its renewal, the certificate of registration would have expired.

(6) A certificate of registration that is issued under paragraph (3)(a) in respect of any factory described in Part II of the First Schedule shall remain in force from the date of its issue until such time as it is revoked in accordance with these Regulations.

(6A) A certificate of registration that is issued under paragraph (3)(a) in respect of any factory pursuant to an application made by its occupier at the direction of the Commissioner under regulation 7(1)(ii) —

(a)	shall be valid for a period of one year, or for such other period as the Commissioner may determine in a particular case, unless it is earlier revoked in accordance with these Regulations; and
(b)	may, on payment of the appropriate fee specified in the Second Schedule, be renewed by the Commissioner for one year or such other period as the Commissioner may determine in a particular case, from the date immediately following that on which, but for its renewal, the certificate of registration would have expired.”.

Amendment of regulation 7

5. Regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the words “register the factory” in sub-paragraph (ii), the words “under regulation 6”; and
(b)	by inserting, immediately before the words “the First Schedule” in sub-paragraph (ii), the words “Part I or II of”.

Amendment of regulation 9

6. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (3), the following paragraph:

“(3A) The Commissioner may —

(a)	on the application of the occupier of a registered factory; or
(b)	on being satisfied that the occupier of a registered factory has ceased to occupy the factory,

revoke the certificate of registration of the factory.”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “certificate of registration of a factory” in paragraphs (4) and (6), the words “under paragraph (2), (3) or (3A)(b)”.

Amendment of regulation 10

7. Regulation 10(2) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “certificate of registration of that factory”, the words “under regulation 9(2), (3) or (3A)(b)”.

Deletion and substitution of First and Second Schedules

8. The First and Second Schedules to the principal Regulations are deleted and the following Schedules substituted therefor:

“FIRST SCHEDULE

Regulations 2, 5(1), 6(1), (5) and (6), 7(1) and 13(2) and Second Schedule

Classes of Factories

Part I

1. Any factory engaged in the processing or manufacture of petroleum, petroleum products, petrochemicals or petrochemical products.

2. Any factory engaged in the manufacture of —

(a)	fluorine, chlorine, hydrogen fluoride or carbon monoxide; or
(b)	synthetic polymers.

3. Any premises where the bulk storage of toxic or flammable liquid is carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain and which has a storage capacity of 5,000 or more cubic metres for such toxic or flammable liquid.

Part II

1. Any premises where any building operation or works of engineering construction is or are being carried out by way of trade or for purposes of gain, whether or not by or on behalf of the Government or a statutory board, and includes any line or siding (not forming part of a railway) which is used in connection with the building operation or works of engineering construction.

2. Any yard (including any dock, wharf, jetty, quay and the precincts thereof) where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out, including the waters adjacent to any such yard where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out by or on behalf of the occupier of that yard.

3. Any factory engaged in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products or their intermediates.

4. Any factory engaged in the manufacture of semiconductor wafers.

5. Any factory engaged in the manufacture of fabricated metal products, machinery or equipment and in which 100 or more persons are employed.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 6(3), (5) and (6A)

Fees

1.—(1) The fee for the issue or renewal of a certificate of registration in respect of a factory described in Part I of the First Schedule shall be, where the number of persons employed at the factory is —

(a)	not more than 5

$90 for 5 years

(b)	more than 5 but not more than 10

$260 for 5 years

(c)	more than 10 but not more than 50

$540 for 5 years

(d)	more than 50 but not more than 100

$1,300 for 5 years

(e)	more than 100 but not more than 500

$1,830 for 5 years

(f)	more than 500

$2,340 for 5 years.

(2) Where the certificate of registration in respect of a factory described in Part I of the First Schedule is issued or renewed for a period other than 5 years, the fee payable for such certificate of registration shall be computed on a pro rata basis.

2. The fee for the issue of a certificate of registration in respect of a factory described in paragraph 1 or 2 of Part II of the First Schedule shall be, where the persons employed at the factory is —

(a)	not more than 5

$90

(b)	more than 5 but not more than 10

$260

(c)	more than 10 but not more than 50

$540

(d)	more than 50 but not more than 100

$1,300

(e)	more than 100 but not more than 500

$1,830

(f)	more than 500

$2,340.

3. The fee for the issue of a certificate of registration in respect of a factory described in paragraph 3, 4 or 5 of Part II of the First Schedule shall be, where the persons employed at the factory is —

(a)	not more than 5

$45

(b)	more than 5 but not more than 10

$130

(c)	more than 10 but not more than 50

$270

(d)	more than 50 but not more than 100

$650

(e)	more than 100 but not more than 500

$915

(f)	more than 500

$1,170.

4.—(1) The fee for the issue or renewal of a certificate of registration in respect of a factory upon an application made by the occupier of the factory pursuant to the direction of the Commissioner under regulation 7(1)(ii) shall be, where the number of persons employed at the factory is —

(a)	not more than 5

$45 for one year

(b)	more than 5 but not more than 10

$130 for one year

(c)	more than 10 but not more than 50

$270 for one year

(d)	more than 50 but not more than 100

$650 for one year

(e)	more than 100 but not more than 500

$915 for one year

(f)	more than 500

$1,170 for one year.

(2) Where a certificate of registration referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is issued or renewed for a period other than one year, the fee payable for such certificate of registration shall be computed on a pro rata basis.

”

Saving and transitional provision

9. Regulation 6(6) of the principal Regulations in force as from 1st March 2010 shall apply to any certificate of registration which —

(a)	was issued before that date in respect of a factory falling within the classes of factories described in paragraphs 1, 2, 5(c), 6 and 7 of the First Schedule to those Regulations in force immediately before that date; and
(b)	remains valid immediately before that date,

as if such certificate of registration had been issued in respect of a factory falling within the classes of factories described in Part II of the First Schedule to those Regulations in force from that date.

Made this 26th day of January 2010.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[OSHD/C010-048-00001; AG/LEG/SL/354A/2006/10 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 65(8) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act).

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