Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Environmental Public Health (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Amendment of section 60

Section 60 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) The manager of any publicly accessible premises must —

(a)

regularly clean, and keep clean and in good repair, the premises;

(b)

keep the premises free of conditions that may endanger the lives or health of the manager’s employees or other users of the premises; and

(c)

where the premises are specified premises, comply with the additional requirements relating to specified premises under this Act.”;

(b)

by deleting the words “owner, occupier or lessee” wherever they appear in subsections (2) and (3)(b) and substituting in each case the word “manager”;

(c)

by deleting the words “such building or part thereof” in subsection (2) and substituting the words “publicly accessible premises”;

(d)

by deleting the words “subsection (1)(a) or (b)” in subsection (2) and substituting the words “subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c)”;

(e)

by deleting the words “an air-conditioned building or part thereof” in subsection (3) and substituting the words “any publicly accessible premises that are air‑conditioned”;

(f)

by deleting the words “building or part thereof” wherever they appear in subsection (3)(a) and (b) and substituting in each case the word “premises”; and

(g)

by deleting the section heading and substituting the following section heading:“Publicly accessible premises to be kept clean, etc.”.