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Environmental Public Health Act 1987 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3B · District Pneumatic Waste Conveyance System

31M. Connection charge

Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2018.

(1)

The owner of any premises within a DPWCS area which is connected to the DPWCS for that DPWCS area must pay to the Agency a charge known as a connection charge of such amount and payable at such time or times as the Agency may, with the approval of the Minister, by order in the Gazette, prescribe.

(2)

For the purpose of determining the amount of the connection charge under subsection (1), all the costs incurred in the construction of the DPWCS for the DPWCS area, including (but not limited to) the cost of constructing the air and ventilation networks and refuse pipeline networks, but excluding the cost of constructing the related internal assets, may be taken into consideration.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (1), the Agency may, with the Minister’s approval, prescribe different amounts of connection charge and different times of payment for persons differently situated, including different amounts of connection charge for premises with different gross floor areas and generating different amounts of refuse.

(4)

Where the premises mentioned in subsection (1) are comprised in a strata title plan under the Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967, a reference in that subsection to the owner or occupier of the premises is deemed to refer to the management corporation constituted under that strata title plan under that Act.

Terms defined in this Act

Agency
Defined · s 2
“Agency” means the National Environment Agency established under the National Environment Agency Act 2002;
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air and ventilation networks
Defined · s 31E
“air and ventilation networks” means —(a)all air and ventilation transmission pipelines or interconnected transmission pipelines; and(b)other devices and equipment (including pressure regulating and control valves),used or intended for, or for purposes connected with, conveying or transporting refuse or waste by air suction;
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DPWCS
Defined · s 31E
“District Pneumatic Waste Conveyance System” or “DPWCS” means a pneumatic waste conveyance system that is established, or required to be established, for a DPWCS area;
Open s 31E
DPWCS area
Defined · s 31E
“DPWCS area” means an area declared under section 31G(1);
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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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related internal assets
Defined · s 31E
“related internal assets” means all receptacles, refuse chutes, chute chambers, pipes, valves, control cables and sensors within any premises up to but not including any connection point, that are used for, or for purposes connected with, conveying or transporting refuse or waste by air suction from within any premises to the refuse pipeline networks.
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