Environmental Public Health (Ash Scattering Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2021

No. S 317

Environmental Public Health Act

(CHAPTER 95)

Environmental Public Health
(Ash Scattering Facility — Exemption)
Regulations 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 110(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act, the National Environment Agency makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Environmental Public Health (Ash Scattering Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 17 May 2021.

Definitions

2.  In these Regulations —

“ash scattering facility” means any of the following:

(a) the Garden of Peace in the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery;

(b) the Garden of Serenity in the Mandai North Crematorium;

[S 503/2025 wef 15/08/2025]

“ashes” means the remains, in powder form, of a corpse (including a stillborn child) or a human body part, that have been cremated in a crematorium.

Exemption

3.—(1)  Section 17(1)(a) of the Act does not apply to an individual who deposits, drops, places or throws ashes in an area of the ash scattering facility which is designated by the operator of the facility for that purpose.

(2)  Section 17(1)(b) of the Act does not apply to an individual who keeps or leaves ashes in an area of the ash scattering facility which is designated by the operator of the facility for that purpose.

Made on 12 May 2021.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/176; AG/LEGIS/SL/95/2020/9 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 111(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act).