Energy Conservation (Energy Management Practices for Transport Facility Operators) Regulations 2013

No. S 807

Energy Conservation Act 2012

(ACT 11 OF 2012)

Energy Conservation
(Energy Management Practices
for Transport Facility Operators)
Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 62 of the Energy Conservation Act 2012, the Minister for Transport hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

Preliminary

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Energy Conservation (Energy Management Practices for Transport Facility Operators) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2014.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“chief executive” means any person, by whatever name described, who is in the direct employment of, or acting for or by arrangement with, a transport facility operator, and is principally responsible for the management and conduct of the business of the transport facility operator;

“energy” has the same meaning as in the Energy Conservation (Transport Facility Operators) Order 2013 (G.N. No. S 806/2013);

“energy commodity” has the same meaning as in the Energy Conservation (Transport Facility Operators) Order 2013;

“energy consumption” has the same meaning as “consumption of energy” in the Energy Conservation (Transport Facility Operators) Order 2013;

“energy-consuming system” means any piece of equipment or pieces of equipment working together to perform a task or support one or more processes which consume fuel or energy commodities, including but not limited to any of the following:

(a)	fuel combustion system;
(b)	heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system (including air handling system);
(c)	cooling system;
(d)	system used to produce or generate energy commodity or commodities;
(e)	system used for bonding, separation, conversion, treatment, testing or processing;
(f)	system used for pumping, movement, transportation, mixing or recovery;

“feedstock” refers to any fuel or energy commodity that is used as raw material to produce products containing carbon;

“greenhouse gas” refers to any of the gases as specified in Part I of the First Schedule;

“relevant business activity”, in relation to a transport facility operator, means a business activity which —

(a)

is under the operational control of the transport facility operator; and

(b)

is attributable to —

(i)	in the case of an airport service operator that qualifies as a transport facility operator, or of a port service operator that is declared by the Energy Conservation (Transport Facility Operators) Order 2013 (G.N. No. S 806/2013) to be a transport facility operator, the business of the transport facility operator as an airport service operator or a port service operator (as the case may be); or
(ii)	in the case of a land transport operator that is declared by the Energy Conservation (Transport Facility Operators) Order 2013 to be a transport facility operator, the business of the transport facility operator, whether as a land transport operator or otherwise;

“specific energy consumption” means a measure of the energy consumption of a business activity or an energy-consuming system, as the case may be, that is expressed —

(a)	by reference to a unit of production or service that is reasonably relevant to the business activity or energy‑consuming system, its energy use, or both; and
(b)	by providing a metric (number) and a measure (production unit or unit relevant to the service);

“transport facility operator” means —

(a)	an airport service operator which, by the Energy Conservation (Transport Facility Operators) Order 2013, qualifies as a transport facility operator; or
(b)	a land transport operator or port service operator which is declared, by that Order, to be a transport facility operator.

Made this 26th day of December 2013.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Transport,
Singapore.

[LTA/ECA/SL/EMPTFO.2013; AG/LLRD/SL/92C/2012/6 Vol. 1]

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