Clause 8

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 disposal 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 disposal 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 disposal 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) and (5) and in the section heading and substituting in each case the words “waste disposal licence”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(3A) The Director‑General may subdivide waste disposal licences into classes, such as according to the type of waste that may be received, stored, sorted, treated or processed at the disposal facility maintained or operated by the waste disposal licensee, and may grant or renew a waste disposal licence accordingly for one or more such classes.”;

by deleting the word “licensee” in subsection (5)(a), (c) and (d) and substituting in each case the words “waste disposal licensee”;

by deleting paragraph (b) of subsection (5); and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(5A) The Director-General may —

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

despite section 99(13), modify any condition or add any new condition during the period to which a waste disposal 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 23A(1) or (2).”.