Radiation Protection (Exemption for Transit, Transhipment and Carriage of Conveyance Equipment) Regulations 2014

No. S 703

Radiation Protection Act

(CHAPTER 262)

Radiation Protection
(Exemption for Transit, Transhipment and
Carriage of Conveyance Equipment)
Regulations 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 41 of the Radiation Protection Act, the National Environment Agency hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Radiation Protection (Exemption for Transit, Transhipment and Carriage of Conveyance Equipment) Regulations 2014 and shall come into operation on 21 October 2014.

Exemption

2.—(1)  Part III of the Act (which relates to the control of import, export, etc., of radioactive materials and irradiating apparatus) does not apply to —

(a) the bringing in transit into Singapore of any radioactive material or irradiating apparatus, and the bringing out of Singapore of such material or apparatus;

(b) the bringing into Singapore of any radioactive material or irradiating apparatus for the purpose of transhipment, and the bringing out of Singapore of such material or apparatus after the transhipment; or

(c) the bringing into Singapore by a conveyance of any radioactive material or irradiating apparatus if the material or apparatus forms part of the equipment of the conveyance, and the bringing out of Singapore of such material or apparatus by the same conveyance as part of its equipment.

(2)  Paragraph (1)(a) and (b) does not apply to any nuclear material as defined in section 26A(1) of the Act.

(3)  In paragraph (1) —

“bring in transit” means to bring goods from any country into Singapore by land, water or air, where they are to be taken out from Singapore on the same conveyance on which they are brought into Singapore without any landing in Singapore, but does not include the passage through Singapore in accordance with international law of a foreign conveyance carrying goods;

“transhipment” means removing goods from the conveyance on which they were brought into Singapore and placing them on the same or another conveyance for the purpose of taking them out of Singapore, where these acts are carried out on a through bill of lading, through airway bill or through manifest.

Revocation

3.  The Radiation Protection (Transit and Transhipment) (Exemption) Regulations (Rg 4) are revoked.

Made on 13 October 2014.

CHEW GEK KHIM

Chairman,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[NEA/LD/43 V. 1; AG/LLRD/SL/262/2010/3 Vol. 1]