Clause 13

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsections:“(1A) Without limiting section 99(2), an application for the grant or renewal of a waste collector licence must —

be in the form and manner specified by the Director‑General;

be accompanied by an application fee, if prescribed; and

be accompanied by any prescribed information that the Director‑General requires to decide on the application, including but not limited to the following:

a progressive wage plan for the waste collection workers that the applicant employs who are citizens or permanent residents of Singapore, that complies with the prescribed requirements;

evidence that such proportion of the waste collection workers that the applicant employs, have attended such training and at such frequency, as the Director‑General may specify.(1B) The Director‑General may refuse to consider an application that is incomplete or not made in accordance with subsection (1A).”;

by deleting the word “licence” wherever it appears in subsections (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) and substituting in each case the words “waste collector licence”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (4), the following subsection:“(4A) The Director-General may subdivide waste collector licences, whether granted or renewed before, on or after the date of commencement of section 13(c) of the Environmental Public Health (Amendment) Act 2023, into classes, such as according to the type of refuse or waste that may be collected, removed, transported, stored or imported by the waste collector licensee, and may grant or renew a waste collector licence accordingly for one or more such classes.”;

by deleting the word “licensee” in subsections (5) and (6)(a), (b) and (d) and substituting in each case the words “waste collector licensee”;

by inserting the word “and” at the end of subsection (6)(b);

by deleting paragraph (c) of subsection (6); and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (6), the following subsection:“(6A) The Director-General may —

under section 99(1)(c), impose different conditions for different classes of waste collector licences or waste collector licensees under different circumstances; and

despite section 99(13), modify any condition or add any new condition during the period to which a waste collector licence relates, if the Director-General is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so,except that any such condition or modification must not be inconsistent with any prescribed condition referred to in section 31AA(1) or (2).”.