Singapore legislation
Clause 4
of National Environment Agency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill
Clause 4
Amendment of Environmental Public Health Act
The Environmental Public Health Act (Cap. 95, 2002 Ed.) is amended —
by inserting, immediately after the definition of “authorised officer” in section 2, the following definition:“ “auxiliary officer” means an individual who is appointed as an auxiliary officer under section 16A(1) of the National Environment Agency Act (Cap. 195);”; and
by deleting subsection (2) of section 3 and substituting the following subsection:“(2) The Director-General may in writing appoint any of the following persons to be an authorised officer for the purposes of this Act:
a public officer;
an officer or auxiliary officer of the Agency;
an officer of any statutory authority;
an auxiliary police officer appointed under the Police Force Act (Cap. 235).”.