Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999 (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2025

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Jan 2025

No. S 85

Environmental Protection and
Management Act 1999

Environmental Protection and
Management Act 1999
(Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 76(1) of the Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999, the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999 (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 1 August 2025.

Amendment of Part I of Second Schedule

2. In the Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999, in the Second Schedule, in Part I —

(a)

after the item “Lewisites”, insert —

“

Long‑chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC‑PFCAs) (chain lengths at least C₉ but not exceeding C₂₁); their salts and related compounds

Medium‑chain chlorinated paraffins (chain lengths at least C₁₄ but not exceeding C₁₇)

”;

(b)

replace the item “Mercury and its compounds in controlled EEE” with —

“

Mercury or any mercury compound in controlled EEE

Controlled EEE containing mercury of not more than 0.1% maximum concentration value by weight of homogeneous material in controlled EEE.

”;

(c)

replace the item “Mercury and its compounds in batteries” with —

“

Mercury or any mercury compound in batteries

Batteries (including batteries in button form) containing not more than 0.0005% by weight of mercury per cell.

”;

(d)

replace the item “Mercury in cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps used for electronic displays” with —

“

Mercury or any mercury compound in cold cathode fluorescent lamps, and external electrode fluorescent lamps, used for electronic displays

Mercury or any mercury compound in the following electrical and electronic measuring devices:

Melt pressure transducers

Melt pressure transmitters

Melt pressure sensors

The following electrical and electronic measuring devices, if they are installed in large‑scale equipment or used for high precision measurement, where no suitable mercury free alternative is available:

Melt pressure transducers

Melt pressure transmitters

Melt pressure sensors.

”;

(e)

replace the item “Mercury in fluorescent lamps (primarily for general lighting purposes)” with —

“

Mercury or any mercury compound in fluorescent lamps used primarily for general lighting purposes

Circular fluorescent lamps or other linear fluorescent lamps, if each lamp contains not more than 10 mg of mercury per lamp;

Compact fluorescent lamps, if each lamp —

(a)	has a non‑integrated ballast and contains not more than 5 mg of mercury per lamp burner; or

(b)	has an integrated ballast, uses more than 30 W, and contains not more than 5 mg of mercury per lamp burner;

Triband phosphor linear fluorescent lamps, if each lamp uses less than 60 W and contains not more than 5 mg of mercury per lamp.

”;

(f)

replace the item “Mercury in high pressure mercury vapour lamps (primarily for general lighting purposes)” with —

“

Mercury or any mercury compound in high pressure mercury vapour lamps used primarily for general lighting purposes

Mercury or any mercury compound in strain gauges to be used in plethysmographs

”;

(g)

replace the item “Mercury in switches and relays” with —

“

Mercury or any mercury compound in switches and relays

Very high accuracy capacitance and loss measurement bridges and high frequency radio frequency switches and relays in monitoring and control instruments with a maximum mercury content of 20 mg per bridge, switch or relay, if they are used for research and development purposes.

”; and

(h)

replace the item “Mercury in the following non‑electronic measuring devices” with —

“

Mercury or any mercury compound in the following non‑electronic measuring devices:

Barometers

Hygrometers

Manometers

Thermometers

Sphygmomanometers

Non‑electronic measuring devices installed in large‑scale equipment or those used for high precision measurement, where no suitable mercury‑free alternative is available.

Mercury or any mercury compound in mercury vacuum pumps

Mercury or any mercury compound in photographic film and paper

Mercury or any mercury compound in propellant for satellites and spacecraft

Mercury or any mercury compound in tyre balancers and wheel weights

”.

Amendment of Part II of Second Schedule

3. In the Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999, in the Second Schedule, in Part II —

(a)

replace the item “Photographic paper” with —

“Photographic paper other than those containing any of the following substances as defined in Part I of this Schedule: mercury or mercury compounds;”; and

(b)

replace the item “Propellants other than those containing ozone depleting substances” with —

“Propellants other than those containing any of the following substances as defined in Part I of this Schedule: ozone depleting substances or (if the propellant is for satellites or spacecraft) mercury or mercury compounds;”.

Made on 27 January 2025.

STANLEY LOH KA LEUNG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Sustainability and
the Environment,
Singapore.

[C030/01/118; AG/LEGIS/SL/94A/2020/4]

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