Singapore legislation

Regulation 40D

of Public Utilities (Water Supply) Regulations

Regulation 40D

Submission of information and documents by qualifying consumer

Amended byS 112/2019 wef 01/03/2019

Subregulation 1

Where regulation 40C(2) or (3) (as the case may be) applies, the consumer must submit to the Board, in accordance with paragraph (5), the information and documents mentioned in that paragraph for the site or sites if the consumer —

(a)

is not required, under regulation 40BB(1) or (2), to submit information or documents for the site or sites in year T; and (b)was not a qualifying consumer for year T – 1.

Subregulation 2

Paragraph (1) does not apply if, before 1 May of year T, the consumer ceases the business activity at the site or all the sites in respect of which the consumer is a qualifying consumer.

Subregulation 3

Where regulation 40C(4) applies, the consumers must each submit to the Board, through the appointed qualifying consumer and in accordance with paragraph (5), the information and documents mentioned in that paragraph for the site, if —

(a)

the consumers are not required, under regulation 40BB(4), to submit information or documents for the site in year T; and

(b)

any one of the consumers was not a qualifying consumer for the site in year T – 1.

Subregulation 4

Paragraph (3) does not apply if, before 1 May of year T, all the consumers cease the business activity at the site in respect of which the consumers are qualifying consumers for year T.

Subregulation 5

The information and documents mentioned in paragraph (1) or (3) must —

(a)

be submitted to the Board —

(i)

before 1 May of year T (or such later date as the Board may allow in any particular case);

(ii)

through the Board’s website at https://www.pub.gov.sg; and

(iii)

in the form specified by the Board; and

(b)

comprise the following:

(i)

the bills and other records (if any) showing the volume of each type of water supplied to the qualifying consumer at the site or sites in question for year T – 1 (whether or not the water was supplied by the Board);

(ii)

such other information or documents required by the Board relating to the water used at the site or sites in question;

(iii)

such particulars (including contact details and a business profile) relating to the qualifying consumer and site or sites in question, as may be specified in the form;

(iv)

a signed statement from the chief executive of the qualifying consumer in question, that the information and documents submitted are accurate and complete.

Subregulation 6

Amended byS 112/2019 wef 01/03/2019

A consumer that, without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (1) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence.