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Environmental Pollution Control Act 1999

(Act 9 of 1999)

Environmental Pollution Control (Ozone Depleting Substances) Regulations 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 76(1) of the Environmental Pollution Control Act 1999, the Minister for the Environment hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Pollution Control (Ozone Depleting Substances) Regulations 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2001.

Definitions

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

“Annex A controlled substance” means any ozone depleting substance specified in the Schedule under the heading “Annex A”;

“Annex B controlled substance” means any ozone depleting substance specified in the Schedule under the heading “Annex B”;

“Annex C controlled substance” means any ozone depleting substance specified in the Schedule under the heading “Annex C”;

“Annex E controlled substance” means any ozone depleting substance specified in the Schedule under the heading “Annex E”;

“Copenhagen Amendment” means the amendments to the Montreal Protocol adopted by the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Copenhagen on 25th November 1992;

“London Amendment” means the amendments to the Montreal Protocol adopted by the Second Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in London on 29th June 1990;

“Montreal Protocol” means the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer adopted at Montreal on 16th September 1987;

“ozone depleting substance” means any ozone depleting substance specified in the Schedule to these Regulations or in Part I of the Second Schedule to the Act but shall not include —

(a)	such substance when contained in any product specified in the second column of Part I of the Second Schedule to the Act corresponding to ozone depleting substances; or
(b)	such substance when contained in any substance, preparation or product specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to the Act;

“party to the Montreal Protocol” means a country or State which has ratified, accepted or approved the Montreal Protocol or acceded thereto.

(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, Annexes A, B, C and E in the Schedule correspond to Annexes A, B, C and E, respectively, to the Montreal Protocol.

Prohibition on importation from and exportation to certain countries

3.—(1) No person shall import into Singapore from, or export out of Singapore to, any country which —

(a)	at the time of importation or exportation is not a party to the Montreal Protocol, any Annex A controlled substance;
(b)	at the time of importation or exportation has not ratified, accepted or approved the London Amendment, any Annex B controlled substance;
(c)	at the time of importation or exportation has not ratified, accepted or approved the Copenhagen Amendment, any Annex C controlled substance specified under the sub-heading “Group II”; and
(d)	at the time of importation or exportation has not ratified, accepted or approved the Copenhagen Amendment, any Annex E controlled substance.

Penalty

4. Any person who contravenes regulation 3 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.

Made this 28th day of December 2000.

TAN GEE PAW

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of the Environment,
Singapore.

[ENV/LD/39/2.1; AG/LEG/SL/94A/98/1 Vol. 3]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 76(3) of the Environmental Pollution Control Act 1999).