Environmental Public Health (Designation of Specified Premises) Order 2021

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No. S 532

Environmental Public Health Act

(CHAPTER 95)

Environmental Public Health
(Designation of Specified Premises)
Order 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 62A(2) of the Environmental Public Health Act, the National Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Environmental Public Health (Designation of Specified Premises) Order 2021 and comes into operation on 30 July 2021.

Definitions

2. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires —

“adult disability home” means any premises that are used or intended to be used primarily for the lodging of, and the provision of residential care for, persons who —

(a)	have autism or any intellectual, physical or sensory disability or any combination of any such disabilities;
(b)	require care or assistance with respect to their personal needs or safety; and
(c)	are (at the time of admission) between the ages of 18 and 55 years;

“coffeeshop” means any food establishment licensed as a coffeeshop or an eating house under section 32 of the Act;

“disability hostel” means any premises that are used or intended to be used primarily for the lodging and training of persons who —

(a)	have autism or any intellectual, physical or sensory disability or any combination of any such disabilities; and
(b)	are (at the time of admission) between the ages of 18 and 55 years;

“early childhood development centre” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017;

[S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

“eldercare and social‑communal facility” means any premises (other than a healthcare institution) that are used or intended to be used primarily for —

(a)	the carrying out of facilitated care activities by; or
(b)	the provision of custodial care for,

persons who are 60 years of age or older;

“food centre or market” means any premises (other than a food establishment that is licensed as a foodshop under section 32 of the Act) that —

(a)	are styled or described as a food centre or market;
(b)	contains multiple stalls; and
(c)	are used or intended to be used primarily for the sale, or the preparation, packing or storage for sale, of any food (whether cooked or uncooked) for human consumption;

“Government school” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Education Act 1957;

[S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

“Government‑aided school” means a school (not being an independent school) that —

(a)	is established by a person other than the Government; and
(b)	is conducted by a committee of management which is in receipt of a grant‑in‑aid from the Government under the Education (Grant‑in‑Aid) Regulations (Rg 3) for the defraying of the expenses incurred for conducting the school; [S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

“healthcare institution” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act 1980;

[S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

“home for children and young persons” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1993;

[S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

“home for the aged” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Homes for the Aged Act 1988;

[S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

“independent school” means a school that is specified in —

(a)	any order made under section 3(1) of the School Boards (Incorporation) Act 1990; or [S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]
(b)	Part I of the Schedule to the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Edusave Pupils Fund) Regulations (Rg 1); [S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

“language centre” means —

(a)	any educational institution organised and conducted directly by the Government and bearing the name “Ministry of Education Language Centre”; or
(b)	the Umar Pulavar Tamil Language Centre;

“welfare home” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Destitute Persons Act 1989.

[S 830/2023 wef 31/12/2021]

Designation of specified premises

3.—(1) Each class of premises specified in the first column of the Schedule is, with effect from and including the corresponding date specified in the second column of that Schedule, designated under section 62A(2) of the Act as specified premises.

(2) An Environmental Control Coordinator must be appointed for any specified premises described in the Schedule.

Made on 15 July 2021.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[C030/01/101; NEA/LD/176; AG/LEGIS/SL/95/2020/10 Vol. 1]

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