Singapore legislation

Clause 28

Amendment of section 78

Section 78 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsections:“(2) Without affecting the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for or with respect to, or to otherwise make provision for, all or any of the following matters:

(a)

the registration requirements in relation to —

(i)

regulated goods;

(ii)

suppliers of regulated goods; and

(iii)

registrable corporations;

(b)

the form of any application, report (including a report under section 26C(5)(b)), plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part IV);

(c)

the preparation of any application, report (including a report under section 26C(5)(b)), plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part IV), including the person that should prepare the same and any criteria that the person must satisfy;

(d)

the information and documents to be included in or to accompany any application, report (including a report under section 26C(5)(b)), plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part IV);

(e)

without affecting paragraph (d), in relation to any report or plan mentioned in this Act (except Part IV), the methods, or criteria for the methods, by which the amounts of emissions, reductions, removals, offsets, energy production, energy consumption or any other matters are to be measured or determined, including any one or more of the following:

(i)

conditions relating to the use of different methods or criteria;

(ii)

rating systems for those methods;

(iii)

the particular rating given to each of those methods;

(f)

the period within which any application, report (including a report under section 26C(5)(b)), plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part IV) is to be submitted (including at prescribed intervals);

(g)

the manner in which any application, report (including a report under section 26C(5)(b)), plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part IV) is to be submitted, including the person that should submit the same and any criteria that the person must satisfy;

(h)

the implementation of energy efficiency measures proposed in any energy efficiency improvement plan under section 28;

(i)

the criteria which any person (including an independent third party under section 26C(5)(a)) carrying out any assessment required under this Act (except Part IV) must satisfy;

(j)

in relation to an energy manager under Part III —

(i)

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 the energy manager’s functions and duties;

(k)

any fees and charges payable for an application under, or for any purpose of, this Act (except Part IV);

(l)

any other matter that is required or permitted to be prescribed to give effect to this Act (except Part IV).(2A) Regulations made under this section may make different provision —

(a)

for different classes, descriptions or types of goods, persons or industry sectors; and

(b)

for different circumstances (including, in relation to subsection (2)(e), the circumstances in which the emissions, reductions, removals, offsets, energy production, energy consumption or other matters occur).”.

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