Electric Vehicles Charging (Electric Vehicle Chargers) Regulations 2023

These Regulations are the Electric Vehicles Charging (Electric Vehicle Chargers) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 8 December 2023.

In these Regulations —“accredited certification body” means a person providing conformity assessment services, that is —

accredited under the Singapore Accreditation Council’s Certification Body Accreditation Scheme administered by the Enterprise Singapore Board; or

recognised by a Foreign Recognition Body;“accredited laboratory” means a person providing laboratory testing services, that is —

accredited under the Singapore Accreditation Council’s Laboratory Accreditation Scheme administered by the Enterprise Singapore Board; or

recognised by a Foreign Recognition Body;“conformity assessment body” means a person that performs conformity assessment or any test relating to conformity assessment;“Enterprise Singapore Board” means the Enterprise Singapore Board established by section 3 of the Enterprise Singapore Board Act 2018;“Foreign Recognition Body” means an entity in a country other than Singapore that is authorised under any of the following agreements or arrangements to recognise conformity assessment bodies, testing laboratories or both, on behalf of that country:

the Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Agreement;

the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Agreement;

a mutual recognition agreement;[Deleted by S 175/2025 wef 18/03/2025]“licensed electrical worker” means an individual who is the holder of an electrical worker licence issued under the Electricity (Electrical Workers) Regulations (Rg 1), that is valid and in force;“LTA C&F List” means the document known as “LTA’s list of certificates and forms for certification, installation and inspection of EV chargers” published by the LTA, as in force from time to time;“mutual recognition agreement” means —

a bilateral mutual recognition agreement or arrangement between Singapore and any other country; or

a multilateral mutual recognition agreement or arrangement between Singapore and 2 or more other countries;“non‑restricted access location” means any place that is not a restricted access location;“non‑restricted access use”, in relation to an EV charger, means the use of an EV charger at a non‑restricted access location;“prescribed competent person” means an individual prescribed under regulation 20;“prescribed person” means an individual prescribed under regulation 18;“restricted access location” has the meaning given by regulation 2A;“restricted access use”, in relation to an EV charger, means the use of an EV charger to charge any electric vehicle in Singapore parked within a restricted access location;[Deleted by S 503/2024 wef 08/06/2024]“TR25:2016”, “TR25:2016+A1:2020”, “TR25:2022” and “TR25:2022+A1:2025” have the meanings given by regulation 3.

For the purposes of these Regulations, a restricted access location is any parking space or location for parking as described in paragraph (2) or (3) in relation to a landed dwelling‑house.

Where the landed dwelling‑house is in a development that is to be comprised, or is comprised, in a strata title plan, a restricted access location is —

any parking space or location for parking that is comprised in the same proposed lot or lot as the landed dwelling‑house; or

any parking space or location for parking that is comprised in 2 or more contiguous proposed lots or lots if —

the landed dwelling‑house is comprised in at least one of those proposed lots or lots; and

one of the following applies:

all the proposed lots are purchased by the same purchaser;

in a case where the development is comprised in a strata title plan —

all the lots are purchased by the same purchaser;

all the lots are registered in the name of the same subsidiary proprietor who is the owner developer of the development and those lots are not purchased by any person; or

all the lots are registered in the name of the same subsidiary proprietor who is not the owner developer of the development.

If paragraph (2) does not apply to the landed dwelling‑house, a restricted access location in relation to the landed dwelling‑house is any parking space or location for parking within the landed dwelling‑house.

In this regulation —

“development”, “lot”, “owner developer”, “proposed lot” and “purchaser” have the meanings given by section 2(1) of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004;

“landed dwelling‑house” means a detached house, semi‑detached house or linked or terrace house or townhouse, that is or is to be used wholly or mainly for the purpose of human habitation;

“strata title plan” and “subsidiary proprietor” have the meanings given by section 3(1) of the Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967.

In these Regulations —

“TR25:2016” means the version of Technical Reference 25 for Electric Vehicles Charging System published by the Enterprise Singapore Board on 16 August 2016;

“TR25:2016+A1:2020” means the version of Technical Reference 25 for Electric Vehicles Charging System published by the Enterprise Singapore Board on 27 July 2020; (c)“TR25:2022” means the version of Technical Reference 25 for Electric Vehicles Charging System published by the Enterprise Singapore Board on 28 February 2022; and

“TR25:2022+A1:2025” means the version of Technical Reference 25 for Electric Vehicles Charging System published by the Enterprise Singapore Board on 17 March 2025.