Singapore legislation
Regulation 4
of Fire Safety (Regulated Fire Safety Products) Regulations 2020
Regulation 4
Register of certificates
Subregulation 1
An accredited certification body must maintain a register in which is recorded the information specified in the Second Schedule in relation to each certificate that the accredited certification body issues on or after 14 September 2020.
Subregulation 2
The register required by paragraph (1) must be in the form that the Commissioner requires.
Subregulation 3
Subject to paragraph (5), where there is a change in the status of any certificate issued by an accredited certification body, the accredited certification body must, no later than 5 working days after the date of the change, amend the relevant record in the register mentioned in paragraph (1) to state that change.
Subregulation 4
An accredited certification body must keep and retain each record made under paragraph (1) for the retention period.
Subregulation 5
An accredited certification body must not terminate a certificate that is —
suspended; or
issued in respect of a regulated fire safety product that the accredited certification body knows is the subject of investigations for any offence under the Act.
Subregulation 6
Where an accredited certification body knows or has reason to believe that a regulated fire safety product to which a certificate issued by the accredited certification body relates was manufactured by a person or in a location not mentioned in the application for the certificate, the accredited certification body must state, in the relevant record in the register, that it knows or has reason to believe that the regulated fire safety product was manufactured by a person or in a location not mentioned in the application for the certificate.
Subregulation 7
An accredited certification body that, without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) 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.
Subregulation 8
In this regulation, “retention period”, in relation to a record required by paragraph (1), means the period —
starting the date of issue of the certificate in relation to which the record is kept; and
ending on (and including) the date that is 10 years after —
the termination, withdrawal or expiry of the certificate; or
where one or more renewed certificates are issued in relation to that certificate, the termination, withdrawal or expiry of the last renewed certificate issued.