Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 11 Dec 2009

No. S 609

Workplace Safety and Health Act

(Chapter 354A)

Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009

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 (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2010.

Deletion of regulation 44

2. Regulation 44 of the Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to hereinafter as the principal Regulations) is deleted.

Deletion of Second Schedule

3. The Second Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted.

Transitional provisions

4.—(1) Every person who, immediately before 1st March 2010, was a workplace safety and health auditor appointed under the repealed regulation 44(2)(b) of the principal Regulations shall continue in such appointment as if he were approved as a workplace safety and health auditor under Part II of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 607/2009), except that his appointment shall expire on 1st September 2010.

(2) Where the Commissioner has, before 1st March 2010 and pursuant to the repealed regulation 44(3)( b) of the principal Regulations, required the safety and health management system of a factory, falling within the class or description of factories referred to in the repealed regulation 44(1) of the principal Regulations, to be audited at a stipulated time and that stipulated time falls on or after 1st March 2010, then —

(a)	regulation 9 of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 607/2009) shall apply to the occupier of the factory as if he were the occupier of a workplace specified in the Third Schedule to those Regulations; and
(b)	the duty of the occupier under regulation 9(1) of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 to have the workplace audited at the frequency as specified in the Third Schedule to those Regulations shall commence on the date on which the factory is required to be audited under the repealed regulation 44(3)(b) of the principal Regulations.

(3) Any recommendation of a workplace safety and health auditor referred to in the repealed regulation 44(2)(c) of the principal Regulations which has been made before 1st March 2010 and which has not yet been implemented on that date by the occupier of a factory falling within the class or description of factories referred to in the repealed regulation 44(1) of the principal Regulations shall be treated as if it is the recommendation of a workplace safety and health auditor for the purposes of regulation 9 of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009.

[G.N. No. S 463/2009]

Made this 4th day of December 2009.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[C010-048; AG/LEG/SL/354A/2006/11 Vol. 1]

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

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