Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

No. S 622

Environmental Public Health Act

(Chapter 95)

Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 111 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 (Food Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into operation on 15th October 2004.

Amendment of regulation 9

2. Regulation 9 of the Environmental Public Health (Food Hygiene) Regulations (Rg 16) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words “Notification (N 1)” and substituting the words “Regulations (Rg 4)”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 29

3. Regulation 29 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Live animal

29.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), no person shall —

(a)	bring into, or cause or permit to be brought into or kept in, any licensed premises; or
(b)	cause or permit to be kept in any place which is abutting, or which opens directly into, any licensed premises,

any live animal.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a licence is issued for the operation of a food establishment or private market, the licensee shall, if so directed by the Director-General or any authorised officer, cause to be displayed in a conspicuous place at the licensed premises suitable, and a sufficient number of, notices to the effect that live animals are prohibited within the licensed premises.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where a licence is issued for the operation of a food establishment where pets are allowed, and the licensed premises are used as such a food establishment —

(a)

paragraph (1) shall not apply to the extent that any person may bring into, or cause or permit to be brought into, the dining or refreshment area or any toilet of the licensed premises any animal which is kept as a pet if the animal is —

(i)	kept under proper control;
(ii)	restrained from straying or causing annoyance or nuisance to any person or animal, or damage to any property; and
(iii)	where the animal is a dog, held in a leash; and

(b)

paragraph (2) shall not apply in relation to the licensed premises.

(4) Where the Director-General or an authorised officer has, by notice in writing —

(a)

informed a licensee of any licensed premises referred to in paragraph (3) that —

(i)	there is an outbreak of an infectious or animal-borne disease;
(ii)	the licensee has breached any restriction or condition subject to which the licence was granted; or
(iii)	it is necessary for public health that the licensee ceases to use the licensed premises as a food establishment where pets are allowed; and

(b)

directed the licensee to cease to use the licensed premises as a food establishment where pets are allowed,

paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply in relation to the licensed premises from the date of the notice for such period as the Director-General shall determine.

(5) Where any notice referred to in paragraph (4) has been issued, the Director-General shall, as soon as practicable, cause to be published in the Gazette a notification that paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply in relation to the licensed premises from the date of the notice for the period referred to in paragraph (4).

(6) No person shall, in any licensed premises, feed or cause or permit to be fed any animal using any crockery, utensil, container, receptacle, appliance or implement which is or will be used for the consumption of any food by a human being.

(7) In this regulation —

“animal” includes bird;

“animal-borne disease” includes any disease that —

(a)	afflicts any animal; or
(b)	is or can be transmitted by any animal, whether to a human being or another animal.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

4. The principal Regulations are amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “Commissioner” wherever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “Director-General”:

Regulations 3 (a), 4, 5(4), (5) and (7), 7(1), (3) and (4), 8(1), 10(1) and (2), 14, 24(1) and (2), 25 and 32;

(b)

by deleting the words “Commissioner or any public health officer or public officer” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “Director-General or any authorised officer”:

Regulations 17 (5), 30(3)(a) and (b) and 31(d);

(c)

by deleting the words “Commissioner, public health officer or public officer” in regulation 17(5) and substituting the words “Director-General or authorised officer”; and

(d)

by deleting the words “public health officer or public officer” in regulation 24(1) and substituting the words “authorised officer”.

[G.N. No. S 222/2000]

Made this 15th day of September 2004.

SIMON TAY SEONG CHEE

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[ENV 030/01/101; NEA/LD/38/2; AG/LEG/SL/95/2002/1 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 111(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act).

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