Singapore legislation
Schedule 3
Schedule 3
Regulations
THIRD SCHEDULE(Section 182).RegulationsDepartment. Subject.1.Public Works Department. (a)The laying or carrying of any line of rails, mains, pipes, conduits or electric lines along, through, across, over or under any street or any place laid out or intended for a street. (b)The granting of licences for the carrying and maintenance of telegraphic wires or cables or wires for the conveyance of electricity along or across or under public streets and the fixing and levying of annual or other fees therefor. (c)The level, width and construction of streets and the repairing, cleaning, watering and lighting of streets, roads, canals and bridges and the planting and preservation of trees. (d)The supervision and control of back-lanes vested in the Government, of public streets and of streets laid out or constructed by the Government, the licensing of persons to use such streets and back-lanes for any purpose or in any particular manner other than in the exercise of any right of way thereover. (e)The prevention, removal and suppression of obstructions or encroachments in or on back-lanes, public streets, streets constructed by the Government and arcades abutting thereon and the provision, construction, dimensions and paving along any portion of any land alongside such streets. (f)The making of any hole in any street and the depositing of any building or other material thereon. (g)The closing, fencing, lighting and repair of any works, hole or place likely to be a danger to the public.2.Building Surveyor’s Department. (a)The regulation, restriction, prevention and licensing of the exhibition of advertisements, sky-signs and aerial signs in or on any premises or in or on or by means of any vehicle, vessel or aircraft. (b)The submission of plans and specifications of works and the authorization of persons qualified to submit the same and the nature or classification of plans or specifications which each such person may submit. (c)The construction, alteration and demolition of buildings and the methods and materials to be used in connection therewith. (d)The frontage of, air space about, lighting, air-conditioning, ventilation and height of and approaches and entrances to, the provision of parking places for vehicles in or for and exits from, buildings. (e)The dimensions of rooms, cubicles, staircases and other parts of buildings and the provision of light and air thereto. (f)The provision, construction, paving, width and level of arcades and footways. (g)The issuing of certificates of fitness for occupation and the prohibition of occupation of any building until such a certificate has been issued in respect thereof. (h)The provision, construction, maintenance and repair in any building or on any premises of a water supply, sanitary accommodation, sink accommodation, bathing and washing accommodation and accommodation for the storage, preparation and cooking of food. (i)The provision, construction, maintenance and repair of drains and their connections to sewers. (j)The provision, construction, maintenance and repair of cesspools, privies, septic tanks, sewage purification plant and other matters relating to the reception or disposal of sewage and the provision, maintenance and repair of ash pits, dust-bins and like receptacles. (k)The provision, construction, maintenance and repair of wells, tanks and cisterns. (l)Measures for securing the prevention of fire and the provision, construction, maintenance and repair of means of escape from buildings in case of fire and of appliances for the extinction of fire. (m)The control, regulation and supervision by registration, licensing or otherwise of places used for real performances, theatres, wayangs, concerts and other public exhibitions and entertainments.3.Health Department. (a)Conservancy and the depositing, collection, removal and disposal of dust, dirt, ashes, rubbish, night-soil, dung, trade and garden refuse, trade effluent and other filth and receptacles used or provided in connection therewith. (b)The licensing and the establishment and regulation of slaughter-houses including —
sanitary inspection of animals and their carcases; (ii)the detention for observation and treatment of animals brought for slaughter and suspected of being diseased; (iii)the slaughtering with or without compensation of animals brought for slaughter which are diseased or by reason of emaciation or otherwise are in the opinion of the Health Officer or a person nominated in writing by him unfit for human consumption; (iv)the disposal of carcases of diseased animals; and (v)the marking of carcases of animals. (c)The construction, control and management by registration, licensing or otherwise of places in which food or drink for human consumption is sold, prepared or stored for sale and the control of methods of manufacture employed or used in such places in the preparation or serving of food or drink and of the methods of and of the materials used in the storing, bottling, canning, packing or serving such food or drink and of persons engaged in connection with the sale, preparation, storage, manufacture, bottling, canning, packing or serving. (d)The seizure and disposal of unwholesome flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables or other provisions exposed or intended for sale. (e)The control, regulation and supervision by registration, licensing or otherwise of —
stables, cattle-sheds and places for keeping sheep, cattle, goats, swine or poultry and the prescribing of localities where the same may be kept; (ii)premises used for the keeping in captivity for sale or exhibition of animals or insects; (iii)the sale of water, perishable food and milk; (iv)the carrying on of the trade of cow-keepers, dairymen and purveyors of milk and securing the cleanliness of places used in connection therewith and prescribing precautions to be taken against infection and contamination; (v)public houses, liquor shops, boarding houses, nursing homes, maternity homes, labourers’ dwellings and places used for the reception of sick or dying persons; (vi)public bathing and washing accommodation; (vii)markets and of any thing therein and of places in the vicinity thereof; (viii)persons engaged or employed in markets; and (ix)the weights and measures to be used in markets. (f)The control, regulation and supervision by registration, licensing or otherwise of premises or anything therein used for the purpose of any offensive trade. (g)The prescribing of localities within which unhealthy or offensive trades or occupations may be carried on. (h)The prevention and abatement of nuisances. (i)The use and management of stalls, tables or show-boards set up for the sale of any goods in public streets or places of public resort. (j)The specifying of streets, places and areas or portions thereof in which persons shall not act as itinerant hawkers. (k)Articles or types or classes of articles which may be sold from or exposed for sale and other articles supplied with such articles in or on any stall, vehicle or other receptacle in any public street or place or by any itinerant hawker and premises where any such article is prepared or stored and the manner in which any such article is prepared or transported. (l)The health, cleanliness, medical inspection and treatment of persons licensed as itinerant hawkers. (m)The inspection, regulation, supervision, control, management, maintenance, operation and use of burial grounds, crematoria and burning grounds, the dimensions of graves and places of interment, the prescribing of conditions under which human remains may be disposed of, registers to be kept and generally all matters connected with the good order of burial grounds, crematoria and burning grounds, due regard being had to the religious usages of the several classes of the community. (n)The regulation of the landing and temporary storage of goods upon public quays, wharves and streets adjacent to any port or water-way and the prescribing of fees to be charged in respect thereof.4.Fire Brigade. (a)The establishment and regulation of fire brigades. (b)The control, regulation and supervision by registration, licensing or otherwise of garages and places kept or used for repairing, painting, washing, storing, housing or parking motor vehicles and places where a pump is maintained from which petrol or oil is supplied to motor vehicles except garages or places used in connection with private dwelling-houses for housing motor vehicles kept for private use only. (c)The control, regulation and supervision by registration, licensing or otherwise of premises or anything therein used for the purpose of any dangerous trade. (d)The prescribing of localities within which dangerous trades or occupations may be carried on.5.Parks Department. The establishment, regulation, maintenance and management of any public park, aquarium, walk, recreation or pleasure ground, garden, including admission thereto whether on payment or otherwise, closing thereof and the provision therein of refreshment rooms and other amenities.6.All Departments. (a)The prescribing of forms for licences and for other purposes for use in connection with this Ordinance. (b)The prescribing of fees and charges for the purposes of this Ordinance and prescribing of any other matter which by this Ordinance is required to be or may be prescribed.