Public Utilities (Tariffs for Water) Regulations 1998

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No. S 210

Public Utilities Act

(Chapter 261)

Public Utilities (Tariffs for Water)
Regulations 1998

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20 and 130 of the Public Utilities Act, the Public Utilities Board, with the approval of the Minister for Trade and Industry, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Utilities (Tariffs for Water) Regulations 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st May 1998.

Prices

2.—(1) The prices to be charged for water supplied by the Board shall be in accordance with the tariffs set out in the Schedule.

(2) The Board may, by notification in the Gazette, declare from time to time any increase or decrease in the quantity of water prescribed for the various block rates for the tariffs set out in the Schedule.

Domestic tariffs

3. The domestic tariffs set out in the Schedule shall apply to all water supplied to premises which are used exclusively for residential purposes and such tariffs shall not apply —

(a)	where part of the premises is used for the purposes of or in connection with any trade, business or profession; or
(b)	where part of the premises is used as a hotel, service apartment, boarding house, school, place of worship or mess.

Tariff for shipping

4. The tariff for shipping set out in the Schedule shall apply to all water supplied to ships and water boats.

Non-domestic tariff

5. The non-domestic tariff set out in the Schedule shall apply to all water supplied to the following premises:

(a)	where all or part of the premises is registered as a hotel under the Hotels Act (Cap. 127);
(b)	where all or part of the premises is licensed as a restaurant under the Environmental Public Health Act (Cap. 95);
(c)	construction sites including temporary worksites where any kind of road or building construction, reclamation works, site formation, repair, demolition, alteration of or addition to a building or building operation is carried out; or
(d)	premises to which the domestic tariff and the tariff for shipping do not apply.

Method of charging

6. Where the premises of a consumer in the same localities are supplied with water which are metered separately and the price of water supplied is chargeable in accordance with a particular tariff set out in the Schedule, the Board may, in its discretion, charge the consumer for the water supplied as if it is not metered separately.

Revocation and transitional provision

7.—(1) The Public Utilities (Tariffs for Water) Regulations (Rg 7) are revoked.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Board may, in its discretion, apply the provisions of the revoked Public Utilities (Tariffs for Water) Regulations to the May 1998 cycle metre readings as a transitional arrangement.

Made this 28th day of March 1998.

LEE EK TIENG

Chairman,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[AD/00301/1; AG/LEG/SL/261/97/1 Vol. 1 ]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 130(4) of the Public Utilities Act).

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