Singapore legislation

Regulation 28

of Public Utilities (Water Supply) Regulations

Regulation 28

Installation of hot water apparatus, etc.

Amended byS 153/2019 wef 25/03/2019

Subregulation 1

A person must not install any hot water apparatus unless the hot water apparatus is fitted with an adequate device or constructed —

(a)

so as to prevent any backflow of piped water suitable for drinking to —

(i)

the hot water apparatus; or (ii)any pipe conveying piped water suitable for drinking supplied by the approved person; and

(b)

so as not to cause any contamination, or any other adverse effect on the quality, of any piped water suitable for drinking supplied by the approved person.

Subregulation 2

Where a person installs any water heater on the approved person’s premises to heat the approved person’s supply of piped water suitable for drinking, the person must not connect any mixing valve, pipe or other water fitting in which hot water and cold water are mixed, so as to mix —

(a)

water supplied from the water heater connected directly to a service pipe, with cold water not supplied directly from a service pipe; or

(b)

water supplied from the water heater not connected directly to a service pipe, with cold water supplied from a service pipe.

Subregulation 3

Amended byS 153/2019 wef 25/03/2019

Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

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