Sewerage and Drainage (Fees) Regulations 2015

No. S 251

Sewerage and Drainage Act

(CHAPTER 294)

Sewerage and Drainage (Fees) Regulations 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 74(1) of the Sewerage and Drainage Act, the Public Utilities Board, with the approval of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Sewerage and Drainage (Fees) Regulations 2015 and come into operation on 30 April 2015.

Fees for copies of plans or records

2.—(1)  The fee payable under section 13A(2) of the Act for a copy of any plan or record referred to in section 13A(1)(a) of the Act is $3.55.

[S 111/2022 wef 31/03/2022]

[S 912/2023 wef 01/01/2024]

(2)  [Deleted by S 206/2025 wef 01/04/2025]

[S 206/2025 wef 01/04/2025]

Fees for applications under section 33(1) of Act

2A.—(1)  For the purposes of section 33(2) of the Act, the fee payable for an application under section 33(1) of the Act for a clearance certificate or for the approval of the Board in respect of any works for the purposes of section 11, 14, 23 or 24 of the Act, is —

(a) if the works involve a minor project — $1,450 for the works to which the application relates; and

(b) if the works involve a major project — $1,850 for the works to which the application relates.

(2)  The fee must accompany the first submission of the plans for the works made during the application.

(3)  In this regulation —

“major project” means a project other than a minor project;

“minor project” means a project involving —

(a) works for only a single unit of a strata landed dwelling-housing or landed housing (such as a terrace house, detached house, semi-detached house, bungalow or landed public house);

(b) works for an external structure (such as a covered linkway, bus shelter, pedestrian overhead bridge, pavilion, taxi stand or vehicle drop-off point); or

(c) simple or small-scale works that are eligible for the single stage approval process known as the Direct Submission Process through the electronic service described in section 42AA of the Building Control Act 1989.

[S 206/2025 wef 01/04/2025]

Fees for applications for administrative exemptions

2B.  The fee payable for an application under section 73A(1) of the Act for the Board to exempt a particular person from the operation of any of the following, in relation to any requirement for the works for the purposes of section 11, 14, 23 or 24 of the Act, is $950 for each requirement for which the exemption is sought:

(a) any provision of the Act (including any material incorporated by reference under section 32A of the Act);

(b) any provision of any specification or code of practice mentioned in section 32 of the Act.

[S 206/2025 wef 01/04/2025]

Remission or refund of fees

3.  The Board may, as the Board thinks fit, remit or refund, wholly or in part, any fee paid or payable under these Regulations.

Made on 27 April 2015.

TAN GEE PAW

Chairman,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[MEWR C030/01/120 Vol. 8; AG/LEGIS/SL/294/2015/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 74(2) of the Sewerage and Drainage Act).