Fire Safety (Alarm Monitoring Services) Regulations 2020

A fee of $175 is payable by a licensee for each instance one or more members attend at a building in respect of which the licensee provides alarm monitoring services —

Paragraph (1) does not apply where there is a fire at the building at the time the member or members attend at the building.

Where the fee in paragraph (1) is paid in respect of the attendance by a member or members at the building, no fee under item 6 of the Schedule to the Fees (Singapore Civil Defence Force) Order 2014 (G.N. No. S 582/2014) is payable in relation to the same attendance of that member or those members.

In this regulation, “request” means the transmission, on a communication link, of a signal from an alarm system to the alarm monitoring network kept by the Force.

Where a licensee intends to stop providing alarm monitoring services from an alarm monitoring station, the licensee must notify the Commissioner and every affected subscriber of that fact no later than 2 months before the intended date of stopping the alarm monitoring services.

A licensee who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

In this regulation, “affected subscriber”, in relation to a licensee who intends to stop providing alarm monitoring services from an alarm monitoring station, means a person who has engaged the licensee to provide alarm monitoring services, which the licensee provides from that alarm monitoring station.