Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2023

No. S 462

Environmental Public Health Act 1987

Environmental Public Health
(General Waste Disposal Facility —
Exemption) Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 110(1) and 111 of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987, the National Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 1 July 2023.

Definitions

2.  In these Regulations —

“general waste” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Public Health (General Waste Collection) Regulations (Rg 12);

“general waste disposal facility” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility) Regulations 2017 (G.N. No. S 380/2017);

“Institute of Higher Learning” means any of the following:

(a) the Institute of Technical Education, Singapore established under the Institute of Technical Education Act 1992;

(b) the Nanyang Technological University;

(c) the National University of Singapore;

(d) the Singapore Institute of Technology;

(e) the Singapore Management University;

(f) the Singapore University of Social Sciences;

(g) the Singapore University of Technology and Design;

(h) any polytechnic managed and administered by —

(i) the Nanyang Polytechnic established under the Nanyang Polytechnic Act 1992;

(ii) the Ngee Ann Polytechnic established under the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Act 1967;

(iii) the Republic Polytechnic established under the Republic Polytechnic Act 2002;

(iv) the Singapore Polytechnic established under the Singapore Polytechnic Act 1954; or

(v) the Temasek Polytechnic established under the Temasek Polytechnic Act 1990.

Exemption

3.  A person that constructs, establishes, maintains or operates any general waste disposal facility specified in the Schedule is exempt from section 23(1) of the Act.

Revocation

4.  Revoke the Environmental Public Health (General Waste Disposal Facility — Exemption) Regulations 2019 (G.N. No. S 444/2019).

THE SCHEDULE

Regulation 3

Exempted general waste disposal facilities

1. Any refuse bin centre.

2. Any residential premises used for depositing or storing general waste.

3. Any machinery or apparatus (for example, a food waste digester) used solely to process or treat waste generated at the premises in which the machinery or apparatus is located.

4. Any water reclamation facility.

5. A general waste disposal facility that —

(a) is built for the purpose of a research and development project that is undertaken by, or in collaboration with, an Institute of Higher Learning; and

(b) receives less than 100 kilograms of general waste each day.

Made on 27 June 2023.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairperson,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[MSE/C030/01/138; NEA/LD/42; AG/LEGIS/SL/95/2020/31 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 111(4) of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987).