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No. S 616

Public Utilities Act

(CHAPTER 261)

Public Utilities
(Water Supply) (Amendment)
Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 72 of the Public Utilities Act, the Public Utilities Board, 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 Public Utilities (Water Supply) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2014.

Amendment of regulation 40A

2. Regulation 40A of the Public Utilities (Water Supply) Regulations (Rg 5) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “type specified in” in paragraph (1), the words “Part I of”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(2) Without prejudice to regulation 5, every water fitting, apparatus, appliance and product referred to in paragraph (1) shall conform to —

(a)	such requirements relating to water efficiency as may be specified in Part II of the Second Schedule; and
(b)	such standard, code of practice or guidelines adopted or issued by the Board under regulation 3, as the Board may specify.”.

Deletion and substitution of Second Schedule

3. The Second Schedule to the Public Utilities (Water Supply) Regulations is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“THE SCHEDULE

Regulation 40A

Part I

TYPES OF WATER FITTINGS, ETC.,
REQUIRING WATER EFFICIENCY LABEL

The following types of water fittings, apparatus, appliances and products are required to bear a Water Efficiency Label:

(a)	Taps and mixers;
(b)	Flushing cisterns;
(c)	Flush valves;
(d)	Waterless urinals; and
(e)	Clothes washing machines intended for household use.

Part II

REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO WATER EFFICIENCY

1. Every flushing cistern or flush valve shall be of such a design as to use not more than the amount of water specified in paragraph 18(1), (2) or (5) of the First Schedule, as the case may be.

2. Every clothes washing machine intended for household use shall be of such a design as to use not more than 15 litres of water per kilogram of wash load for the washing programme recommended by the manufacturer for a normally soiled load at the rated capacity of the washing machine.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 97/2005; S 703/2008; S 832/2010; S 161/2011]

Made this 19th day of September 2013.

TAN GEE PAW

Chairman,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[MEWR C030/01/124 Vol. 11; AG/LLRD/SL/261/2010/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 72(4) of the Public Utilities Act).