No. S 60
Environmental Public Health Act
(Chapter 95)
Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 111(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act, the National Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2009.
Amendment of regulation 13
2.  Regulation 13(4) of the Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) Regulations (Rg 11) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the word “expiry,”.
Deletion and substitution of regulation 15
3.  Regulation 15 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
Collection of toxic industrial waste
15.  No person shall take delivery of any toxic industrial waste imported into Singapore except —
(a)at a customs station where the waste is imported by road;
(b)at a railway station in Singapore where the waste is imported by rail;
(c)at a wharf in Singapore where the waste is imported by sea; or
(d)at an air cargo terminal in Singapore where the waste is imported by air.”.
Deletion and substitution of regulation 17
4.  Regulation 17 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
Consignment note
17.—(1)  The generator shall prepare the consignment note using the relevant form provided at http://www.nea.gov.sg and in such manner as specified by the Director-General.
(2)  The generator shall —
(a)give one copy of the prepared consignment note referred to in paragraph (1) to the consignor who shall transmit such copy to the driver before transportation of the toxic industrial waste starts; and
(b)submit the consignment note electronically —
(i)to the consignee; and
(ii)to the Director-General within 3 days of the transportation of the waste.”.
Deletion of regulation 18
5.  Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is deleted.
Deletion and substitution of regulation 19
6.  Regulation 19 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
Receipt of consignment note
19.—(1)  The consignee shall, upon taking delivery of the toxic industrial waste —
(a)obtain from the driver the copy of the consignment note transmitted to the driver under regulation 17(2)(a) and endorse such copy; and
(b)within 3 days of the receipt of the toxic industrial waste, acknowledge receipt of the same on the consignment note submitted by the generator under regulation 17(2)(b)(i) and submit the acknowledged note electronically to the Director-General.
(2)  The consignee shall immediately inform the Director-General of the quantity or type of toxic industrial waste received by or delivered to him if it is different from that shown in the consignment note referred to in regulation 17.”.
Amendment of regulation 20
7.  Regulation 20 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting “, 18”.
Amendment of regulation 23
8.  Regulation 23 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “and copies of the consignment note referred to in regulation 17”.
Amendment of regulation 26
9.  Regulation 26 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following paragraph:
(a)keep in the vehicle the copy of the consignment note and statement given to him under regulations 17 and 25, respectively, at all times when the waste is being transported; and”.
Amendment of regulation 32
10.  Regulation 32(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “21 years” in sub-paragraph (b) and substituting the words “18 years”.
Amendment of regulation 37
11.  Regulation 37(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “facility”, the words “within a stipulated period”.
Amendment of regulation 39
12.  Regulation 39(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “waste”, the words “or such industrial waste as the Director-General may suspect to be toxic industrial waste”.
Amendment of regulation 41
13.  Regulation 41 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting “$2,000” and substituting “$10,000”.
Amendment of Schedule
14.  The Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —
(a)by inserting, immediately below item 2 under the heading “Asbestos”, the following item:
3. Asbestos wastes generated from industrial activity, demolition, renovation and delagging works and ship repairing
1,500 kg
500 kg
”1. ash, residues and sludges containing lead and lead compounds
(b)by deleting item 1 under the heading “Lead Compounds” and substituting the following item:
1. Ash, residues and sludges containing lead and lead compounds
1,500 kg
300 kg
”.
(c)by inserting, immediately below item 9 under the heading “Other Wastes”, the following item:
10. Solid wastes and sludges or obsolete/off specification materials not categorised elsewhere in the Schedule and failing the NEA’s landfill disposal criteria
7,500 kg
1,500 kg
”2. pathogenic wastes from healthcare and research institutions, clinics and laboratories
(d)by numbering the existing item under the heading “ Pathogenic Wastes” as item 1, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following item:
2. Pathogenic wastes from healthcare and research institutions, clinics and laboratories
0 kg
0 kg
(e)by inserting, immediately above the heading “ Phenolic Compounds”, the following heading and item:
Pharmaceutical Wastes
 
 
Pharmaceutical wastes comprising antineoplastic agents, antibiotics, vaccines and other immunological products, controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185) and pharmaceutical wastes containing arsenics, cyanides and heavy metals and their salts
0 kg
0 kg
”.
[G.N. Nos. S 130/2000; S 716/2006]

Made this 18th day of February 2009.

CHEW GEK KHIM
Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.
[NEA/LD/39/3/3 V. 1; AG/LEG/SL/95/2002/1 Vol. 5]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 111(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act).