Hazardous Waste (Extended Meaning of Hazardous and Other Wastes — Thailand) Notification 2005

Hazardous Waste (Control of
Export, Import and Transit)
Act 1997

(Section 5)

Hazardous Waste
(Extended Meaning of Hazardous
and Other Wastes — Thailand)
Notification 2005

2025 REVISED EDITION

(2 June 2025)

[23 December 2005]

Whereas —

(a) Thailand is a party to the Basel Convention;

(b) Thailand has, by notification through the Secretariat of the Basel Convention, informed Singapore of its national definition of hazardous wastes;

(c) the Minister is satisfied that the substances, objects or wastes specified in the notification of Thailand are, in particular circumstances or for particular purposes, classified as hazardous or other wastes under the law of Thailand; and

(d) apart from section 5 of the Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act 1997, those substances, objects or wastes are not hazardous or other wastes in Singapore.

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act 1997, the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment makes the following Notification:

Citation

1.  This Notification is the Hazardous Waste (Extended Meaning of Hazardous and Other Wastes — Thailand) Notification 2005.

Declared substances, objects or other wastes

2.  The substances, objects or other wastes set out in the Schedule are, in the circumstances or for the purposes specified in the Schedule, declared to be hazardous or other wastes in relation to Thailand so far as they are not hazardous or other wastes apart from section 5 of the Act.

THE SCHEDULE

Paragraph 2

Declared substances, objects or other wastes

  Used tyres (under the ^*harmonised code item 4012.11, 4012.12, 4012.192, 4012.199, 4012.202, and 4012.209) including their rubber scrap, parings and waste (under the harmonised code item 4004.00) excluding those used for the purpose of research, model study or vehicle attachment and for racing or tourism.

^*   The harmonised code or more commonly known as the harmonised system or HS is an international nomenclature for the classification of goods for countries to administer customs programs and collect trade data on exports and imports.