Resource Sustainability (Exemptions from Part 5) Order 2024

No. S 195

Resource Sustainability Act 2019

Resource Sustainability
(Exemptions from Part 5)
Order 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Resource Sustainability Act 2019, the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Resource Sustainability (Exemptions from Part 5) Order 2024 and comes into operation on 8 March 2024.

Exemption for occupiers and building managers of mixed‑used buildings

2.  The following persons are each exempt from Part 5 of the Act:

(a) an occupier of a mixed‑use building, where the occupier occupies a part of the building that —

(i) is not used as a shopping mall;

(ii) is not used as a hotel; and

(iii) is not used for any industrial purpose;

(b) the building manager of a mixed‑use building, in relation to any food waste generated by an occupier mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a).

Exemption for occupiers and building managers for certain food waste

3.—(1)  An occupier of a prescribed building (or any part of a prescribed building) and a building manager of a prescribed building are each exempt from Part 5 of the Act in relation to any specified food waste.

(2)  In this paragraph, “specified food waste” means any of the following types of food waste:

(a) any clam shell, conch shell, mussel shell, oyster shell, crab shell, lobster shell, snail shell or other similar hard shell;

(b) any durian husk, jackfruit husk, coconut husk, pineapple husk, sugarcane bagasse or other similar hard or fibrous part of any fruit or vegetable;

(c) any beef femur, pork knuckle, pork trotter, lamb shank, animal skull or other similar large bone.

Made on 6 March 2024.

STANLEY LOH KA LEUNG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Sustainability and
the Environment,
Singapore.

[C030/01/138; AG/LEGIS/SL/273A/2020/10 Vol. 1]