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No. S 686

Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018

(ACT 10 OF 2018)

Enterprise Singapore Board
(Conformity Assessment)
Regulations 2018

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 57(1) of the Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018, the Enterprise Singapore Board, with the approval of the Minister for Trade and Industry, makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Enterprise Singapore Board (Conformity Assessment) Regulations 2018 and come into operation on 11 October 2018.

Definitions

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

“alternate testing laboratory” means —

(a)	a testing laboratory or manufacturer’s testing laboratory that is recognised under the IECEE CB Scheme;
(b)	a testing laboratory that is recognised by a Foreign Recognition Body; or
(c)	a testing laboratory the test reports of which are agreed to be accepted by one or more CAB (Certification) or CAB (Testing) under an approved testing agreement;

“approved testing agreement” means an agreement, approved by the Designating Authority, under which a CAB (Certification) or CAB (Testing) agrees with the proprietor of a testing laboratory to accept test reports issued by that testing laboratory;

“CAB” or “conformity assessment body” means a person that performs conformity assessment or any test relating to conformity assessment;

“CAB (Certification)” means a person designated as such by the Designating Authority under regulation 7;

“CAB (Certification — MRA)” means a person designated by a country other than Singapore to carry out any certification of any product for the purposes of an MRA to which both Singapore and that country are parties;

“CAB (Testing)” means a person designated as such by the Designating Authority under regulation 7;

“CAB (Testing — MRA)” means a person designated by a country other than Singapore to carry out any testing of any product for the purposes of an MRA to which both Singapore and that country are parties;

“certificate of conformity” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Consumer Protection (Safety Requirements) Regulations (Cap. 53, Rg 1);

“country” includes a customs territory;

“Designating Authority” means the Enterprise Singapore Board established by section 3 of the Act;

“Foreign Recognition Body” means an entity in a country other than Singapore that is authorised under any of the following agreements or arrangements to recognise CABs, testing laboratories or both, on behalf of that country:

(a)	the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Agreement;
(b)	the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Agreement;
(c)	an MRA to which both Singapore and that country are parties;

“IEC” means the International Electrotechnical Commission;

“IECEE” means the International Electrotechnical Commission system for conformity testing and certification of Electrical Equipment;

“IECEE CB Scheme” means the scheme known as the International Electrotechnical Commission System of Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components Certification Bodies Scheme, administered by the IEC;

“ISO” means the International Organization for Standardization;

“MRA” or “mutual recognition agreement” means —

(a)	a bilateral mutual recognition agreement or arrangement between Singapore and any other country; or
(b)	a multilateral mutual recognition agreement or arrangement between Singapore and 2 or more other countries.

Made on 2 October 2018.

PETER ONG BOON KWEE

Chairperson,
Enterprise Singapore Board.

[MTI 33/1-1–2 Vol. 0; AG/LEGIS/SL/93A/2015/2 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 57(4) of the Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018).