Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Sep 2022

No. S 773

Environmental Public Health Act 1987

Environmental Public Health
(Toxic Industrial Waste)
(Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 111(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987, the National Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2022 and come into operation on 1 October 2022.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. In regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) Regulations (Rg 11) —

(a)

in the definition of “vehicle”, replace the full‑stop at the end with a semi‑colon; and

(b)

after the definition of “vehicle”, insert —

“ “water‑cooled chiller” means a factory-made and prefabricated assembly (whether or not it is shipped as one package) comprising one or more of each of the following:

(a)	a compressor;
(b)	a water‑cooled condenser;
(c)	an evaporator,

with interconnections and accessories, designed to produce chilled water by using a vapour compression refrigeration cycle to remove heat from chilled water in the evaporator and reject the heat to water in the condenser;

“water‑cooled condenser” means a refrigeration system component where refrigerant vapour is condensed and the heat rejected to water, resulting in a rise in water temperature.”.

Amendment of Schedule

3. In the Schedule to the Environmental Public Health (Toxic Industrial Waste) Regulations, in the item under the heading “Spent refrigerants”, replace “and refrigerators” with “, refrigerators and water‑cooled chillers”.

[G.N. Nos. S 130/2000; S 716/2006; S 60/2009; S 76/2010; S 556/2010; S 796/2014; S 205/2021; S 167/2022]

Made on 28 September 2022.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairperson,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/176; AG/LEGIS/SL/95/2020/6 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 111(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987).

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