Singapore legislation
Regulation 8
of Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations
Regulation 8
Cleanliness of public areas
Subregulation 1
No person shall sweep or cause or permit to be swept any dust, dirt, ashes, refuse, rubbish or other matter or thing onto or into any footway, back-lane, drain or road.
Subregulation 2
No person shall stain or cause or permit to be stained in any manner any wall, pillar, lamp post, footway, back-lane, drain or road.
Subregulation 3
Where any person occupies any domestic, business or other premises at street level and such premises abut on any footway, he shall keep that portion of the footway along the frontage of his premises clean and free of any refuse, rubbish, litter, garbage or stains.
Subregulation 4
The occupier of any flat shall keep that portion of the common corridor or passageway along the frontage of his flat clean and free of any refuse, rubbish, litter, garbage or stains.
Subregulation 5
For the purposes of paragraph (4), “flat” means a horizontal stratum of any building or part thereof which is used or intended to be used as a complete and separate unit for habitation, business or other purpose.