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Environmental Public Health Act 1987 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Public Cleansing

10. Director-General may require owner and occupier to provide dustbins and refuse bins, etc.

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2008.

(1)

The Director-General may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of any premises to provide, construct or reconstruct at the expense of the owner or occupier and within the period that may be specified in the notice —

(a)

dustbins or other convenient receptacles, which must conform to any specifications that the Director‑General may require, to be placed in appropriate locations within the premises of the owner or occupier as the Director‑General thinks fit for the deposit of refuse and rubbish from those premises;

(b)

refuse bin centres or refuse bin compartments, which must conform to any specifications that the Director‑General may require, to be sited in appropriate locations within the premises as the Director‑General thinks fit, and in or on which must be placed the dustbins and other receptacles mentioned in paragraph (a); and

(c)

receptacles which must conform to such specifications as the Director‑General may require, to be placed in appropriate locations within the premises of the owner or occupier as the Director‑General thinks fit for the deposit of recyclables.

(2)

Where any dustbins or receptacles have been provided under subsection (1), the Director‑General may, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of any premises concerned to convey, as often as may be necessary, refuse from such premises to a disposal facility.

Terms defined in this Act

Director-General
Defined · s 2
“Director-General” means the Director-General of Public Health appointed under section 3(1);
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disposal facility
Defined · s 2
“disposal facility” includes a recycling facility, a refuse disposal ground, any place used for the deposit of refuse or waste, an incinerator or any plant, machinery or apparatus used for the processing or treatment of refuse or waste;
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occupier
Defined · s 2
“occupier” means the person in occupation of any premises or having the charge, management or control thereof either on that person’s own account or as agent of another person; and, in relation to any part of any premises, different parts of which are occupied by different persons, means the person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of that part;
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premises
Defined · s 2
“premises” means messuages, buildings, lands, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority, and includes any place or structure, or any part thereof used or intended to be used for human habitation or for any other purpose whatsoever;
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provide
Defined · s 78
“provide”, in relation to water suitable for drinking, means to convey, distribute, produce, supply, offer to provide or otherwise make available, in the course of business and whether or not carried on for profit, the water —(a)to the public, or a section of the public, at a public place, any common area of any residential premises, or any other place, premises or area; and(b)by using any reticulation system, storage tank, container, hose, water fitting, generator, tanker, truck or any other system, facility, equipment or vehicle,but does not include —(c)any sale of water suitable for drinking that is regulated under the Sale of Food Act 1973;(d)any supply to a vessel of water suitable for drinking that is regulated under the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996;(e)any provision to a Singapore ship of water suitable for drinking that is regulated under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;(f)any provision of water suitable for drinking solely to the Public Utilities Board; and(g)any other provision of water prescribed by the Minister charged with the responsibility for food safety by order in the Gazette, as not being the provision of water suitable for drinking;
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