Singapore legislation
Schedule 2
Schedule 2
Consequential amendments to other written laws
SECOND SCHEDULESection 46Consequential amendments to other written lawsFirst column Second column(1)Environmental Public Health Act (Chapter 95, 2002 Ed.) Section 2 Delete the words “Radiation Protection Act (Cap. 262)” in paragraph (c) of the definition of “dangerous substance” and substitute the words “Radiation Protection Act 2007”. (2)Health Sciences Authority Act (Chapter 122C, 2002 Ed.) Section 11(1) Delete the words “, tobacco products, radioactive materials and irradiating apparatuses” in paragraph (a) and substitute the words “and tobacco products”. (3)National Environment Agency Act (Chapter 195, 2003 Ed.) (a)Section 11(1) (i)Insert, immediately after the word “environment,” in paragraphs (u) and (v), the word “radiation,”. (ii)Delete the word “and” at the end of paragraph (v), and insert immediately thereafter the following paragraph:“(w)to control and regulate the import, export, possession, storage, transportation, sale and use of radioactive materials and irradiating apparatus; and”. (iii)Re-letter the existing paragraph (w) as paragraph (x). (b)Section 12 (i)Insert, immediately after the words “environmental protection,” in paragraphs (a), (d), (e) and (f), the words “radiation control,”. (ii)Insert, immediately after the words “environmental pollution control,” in paragraph (c), the words “radiation control,”. (c)— Insert, immediately after section 38, the following section: “Transfer to Agency of property, employees, existing contracts, etc., from Health Sciences Authority relating to Centre for Radiation Protection 38A.—
As from the appointed day, such movable and immovable property vested in the Health Sciences Authority as may be determined by the Minister for Finance and used or managed by the Centre for Radiation Protection and all assets, interests, rights, privileges, liabilities and obligations of the Health Sciences Authority relating to the Centre for Radiation Protection shall be transferred to and shall vest in the Agency without further assurance, act or deed. (2) As from the appointed day, all persons employed immediately before that day by the Health Sciences Authority and posted to the Centre for Radiation Protection shall be transferred to the service of the Agency on terms no less favourable than those enjoyed by them immediately prior to their transfer. (3) All deeds, contracts, schemes, bonds, agreements, instruments and arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day to which the Health Sciences Authority is a party and relating to the Centre for Radiation Protection or to any person transferred to the service of the Agency under subsection (2) shall continue in force on and after that day and shall be enforceable by or against the Agency as if the Agency had been named therein or had been a party thereto instead of the Health Sciences Authority. (4) Section 32(2) to (5) shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to the transfer of property, assets, interests, rights, privileges, liabilities and obligations referred to in subsection (1). (5) Sections 33(2), 34, 35, 37 and 38 shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to the transfer of persons referred to in subsection (2). (6) In this section, “appointed day” means the date of commencement of the Radiation Protection Act 2007.”.