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Environmental Public Health Act 1987 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Insanitary Premises, Sanitary Conveniences, General Health Requirements for Buildings

62A. Appointment of Environmental Control Coordinator or Environmental Control Officer for specified premises

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Last amended by an amending law of 2020.

(1)

This section applies to premises for which an environmental sanitation programme is required (called specified premises).

(2)

The Agency may, with the approval of the Minister, by order in the Gazette —

(a)

designate as specified premises any publicly accessible premises (or class of publicly accessible premises);

(b)

designate as specified premises any of the following premises (or class of premises) that are not publicly accessible:

(i)

any premises (or class of premises) owned, managed or occupied by the Government or a statutory body;

(ii)

any premises (or class of premises) used, or intended to be used, for a commercial or an industrial purpose, or for mixed purposes the predominant purpose of which is either a commercial or an industrial purpose;

(iii)

any recreational facility or class of recreational facilities;

(iv)

any common property (or class of common property) of any residential premises (or class of residential premises), or of any premises (or class of premises) mentioned in sub‑paragraph (ii);

(v)

any premises (or class of premises) for which an environmental sanitation programme is assessed to be necessary to minimise or alleviate the risk of, or to prevent or manage, an outbreak or a spread of any infectious disease;

(c)

designate any class, description or type of specified premises for which an Environmental Control Coordinator must be appointed; and

(d)

designate any class, description or type of specified premises for which an Environmental Control Officer must be appointed.

(3)

The manager of any specified premises must —

(a)

where the specified premises are of a class, description or type for which an Environmental Control Coordinator must be appointed — appoint a registered Environmental Control Coordinator as the Environmental Control Coordinator for that specified premises; or

(b)

where the specified premises are of a class, description or type for which an Environmental Control Officer must be appointed — appoint a registered Environmental Control Officer as the Environmental Control Officer for that specified premises.

(4)

For the purposes of subsection (3), the manager of the specified premises may appoint himself, herself or itself as the Environmental Control Coordinator or Environmental Control Officer (as the case may be) for the specified premises in accordance with that subsection if the manager is registered as such under this Act.

(5)

Any person that contravenes subsection (3)(a) or (b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)

for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $5,000; and

(b)

for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

Terms defined in s 2

Agency
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“Agency” means the National Environment Agency established under the National Environment Agency Act 2002;
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common property
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“common property” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004;
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environmental sanitation programme
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“environmental sanitation programme” means any environmental sanitation programme developed under section 62B, and includes such environmental sanitation programme as amended from time to time;
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manager
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“manager”, in relation to any premises, means the occupier of the premises, and where there is no occupier, the owner of the premises;
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premises
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“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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publicly accessible premises
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“publicly accessible premises” means any premises to which the public or a section of the public has access as of right, or by virtue of any express or implied permission with or without payment of a fee and whether or not access to the premises may be restricted at particular times or for particular purposes, and includes any part of those premises, and “publicly accessible” is to be construed accordingly;
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registered Environmental Control Coordinator
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“registered Environmental Control Coordinator” means any individual who is registered under this Act as an Environmental Control Coordinator;
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registered Environmental Control Officer
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“registered Environmental Control Officer” means any individual who is registered under this Act as an Environmental Control Officer;
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residential premises
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“residential premises” means any premises which are permitted to be used under the Planning Act 1998 or any other written law as a dwelling house or which is lawfully so used;
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specified premises
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“specified premises”, in relation to Part 6, has the meaning given by section 62A;
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statutory body
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“statutory body” means a body corporate established by or under a public Act for a public purpose;
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