Singapore legislation

Regulation 9

of Sewerage and Drainage (Trade Effluent) Regulations

Regulation 9

Trade effluent to be free of certain substances

Amended byS 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 73/2015 wef 13/02/2015S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024

Subregulation 1

Amended byS 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024S 73/2015 wef 13/02/2015S 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024

Subject to any permission granted under regulation 11A, a person must not discharge or cause to be discharged into any public sewerage system, or any drain-line or sewer connected to a public sewerage system, any trade effluent which contains any of the following substances:

(a)

any toxic industrial waste, unless the toxic industrial waste is treated and does not contain any substance listed in the Second or Third Schedule in a concentration greater than that specified in either Schedule for the substance;

(b)

calcium carbide;

(c)

petroleum spirit or other inflammable substance;

(d)

any organic compound specified in the First Schedule;

(e)

any substance that either by itself or in combination or by reaction with other waste or refuse may give rise to any gas, fume, odour or substance which is or is likely to be a hazard to human life, a public nuisance, injurious or otherwise objectionable, or which prevents or is likely to prevent entry by workmen maintaining or repairing the public sewerage system, into the public sewerage system;

(f)

yeast, spent or unspent molasses, crude tar, tar oil, crude oil, carbon disulphide, hydro-sulphide and poly-sulphide;

(g)

any radioactive material;

(h)

any waste or refuse liable to form a viscous or solid coating or deposit on any part of the public sewer or sewerage system;

(i)

any excessively discolouring substance;

(j)

[Deleted by S 46/2013 wef 01/02/2013](k)any pesticide, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, rodenticide or fumigant;

(l)

blood waste;

(m)

infectious waste;

(n)

any biological agent within the meaning given by section 2 of the Biological Agents and Toxins Act 2005;

(o)

any toxin within the meaning given by section 2 of the Biological Agents and Toxins Act 2005;

(p)

any animal waste, except in accordance with paragraph (2);

(q)

any chemical that is classified with hazard statement code H340, H350 or H360 under the ninth revised edition of the Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) published by the United Nations in 2021;

(r)

any waste generated from a process that involves tissue digestion or tissue hydrolysis.

Subregulation 2

Amended byS 546/2024 wef 01/07/2024

A person may discharge or cause to be discharged any trade effluent that contains animal waste under paragraph (1)(p) in any of the following circumstances:

(a)

the trade effluent is discharged from a veterinary clinic, pet shop, or pet boarding facility;

(b)

the trade effluent —

(i)

is discharged from a veterinary hospital, equestrian facility, slaughterhouse or farm; and

(ii)

does not contain any solid animal waste;

(c)

the trade effluent —

(i)

is discharged from an animal quarantine facility;

(ii)

does not contain any solid animal waste; and

(iii)

is decontaminated.