Singapore legislation

Clause 78

of Energy Conservation Bill

Clause 78

Regulations

(1)

The Minister may make such regulations as he may consider necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act (except Part IV).

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:

(a)

prescribing the registration requirements in relation to registrable goods and the suppliers of registrable goods, and the regulation of the labelling of registrable goods;

(b)

prescribing the registration requirements in relation to registrable corporations;

(c)

specifying any energy efficiency standards or energy management standards with which any class or description of registered goods or registered corporations must comply;

(d)

in relation to reports under section 27 —

(i)

specifying the methods, or criteria for methods, by which the amounts of emissions, reduction, removal, offsets, energy production or energy consumption are to be measured, including specifying —

(A)

different methods or criteria for different industry sectors;

(B)

different methods or criteria depending on the circumstances in which the emissions, reduction, removal, offsets, production or consumption occurred;

(C)

conditions relating to the use of different methods or criteria;

(D)

rating systems for those methods (including different rating systems for different circumstances); and

(E)

the particular rating given to each of those methods; and

(ii)

specifying different requirements in relation to the information to be supplied in the report for different circumstances;

(e)

requirements for the preparation and submission of a report under section 27 or an energy efficiency improvement plan under section 29;

(f)

requirements relating to the implementation of energy efficiency measures proposed in any energy efficiency improvement plan under section 29;

(g)

in relation to an energy manager under Part III —

(i)

the requirements for the appointment, training and qualification of an energy manager;

(ii)

the functions and duties of an energy manager; and

(iii)

the powers of an energy manager, being necessary powers for the discharge of his functions and duties;

(h)

prescribing any forms for use under this Act;

(i)

prescribing any fees and charges payable for the purposes of this Act;

(j)

prescribing any other matter which is required or permitted to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

(3)

The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of coordinating the exercise of powers by the Director-General under this Act and the exercise of powers by any other sector regulator referred to in Part IV, and may, in particular, make regulations to provide for the procedure to be followed —

(a)

in determining, in a particular case or category of cases, whether the Director-General (or an authorised officer) should exercise his powers or whether a sector regulator (or a transport sector authorised officer) should exercise his or its powers; and

(b)

where the Director-General and a sector regulator, or their respective authorised officers or transport sector authorised officers, may exercise their respective powers concurrently or conjunctively.

(4)

The Minister may, in making any regulations under this section, provide that any contravention of any of the provisions of such regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $10,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both.

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