Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) (Revocation) Regulations 2013

No. S 69

Sewerage and Drainage Act

(CHAPTER 294)

Sewerage and Drainage
(Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges)
(Revocation) Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 72 and 74 of the Sewerage and Drainage Act, the Public Utilities Board, with the approval of the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) (Revocation) Regulations 2013.

Revocation and savings

2.—(1)  The Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) Regulations (Rg 1) are revoked with effect from and including 1st February 2013.

(2)  Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the charges referred to in regulations 3 and 4 of the Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) Regulations in relation to any premises shall continue to be payable in respect of any period ending on 31st January 2013 for which a bill has not been issued as at that date.

(3)  For the purposes of paragraph (2), the Board hereby determines that every occupier of premises, or (when the premises are vacant) the owner of the premises, shall be liable to pay the following sums:

(a) the sum of

where A is the proportion which the period referred to in paragraph (2) bears to the billing period for the charges referred to in regulation 3 of the Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) Regulations in which 31st January 2013 falls, in relation to the occupier or owner of the premises in question;

B is the total number of water-closets, bidets and slop-sinks that are in the premises and are connected to any sewer or sewerage system vested in or owned by the Government or controlled, supervised, maintained and repaired by the Board; and

C is, in relation to urinals, the total number of bowls or stalls or every 610 millimetres length of slab, that are in the premises and are connected to any sewer or sewerage system vested in or owned by the Government or controlled, supervised, maintained and repaired by the Board; and

(b) the sum of

where D is the volume of water in cubic metres supplied to the premises during the period referred to in paragraph (2); and

E is $0.2803 per cubic metre (where the premises are domestic premises) and $0.5607 per cubic metre (where the premises are non-domestic premises).

(4)  Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent the Sewerage and Drainage (Late Payment Charge) Regulations 2013 (G.N. No. S 68/2013) from continuing to apply in relation to any charges under regulation 3 of the Sewerage and Drainage (Sanitary Appliances and Water Charges) Regulations or under paragraph (3)(a) of these Regulations.

Made this 31st day of January 2013.

TAN GEE PAW

Chairman,
Public Utilities Board,
Singapore.

[MEWR C030/01/124 Vol. 11; AG/LLRD/SL/294/2010/2 Vol. 1]

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