Singapore legislation
Regulation 40GA
Regulation 40GA
Appointment of water efficiency manager
Subregulation 1
A qualifying consumer must appoint at least one water efficiency manager to assist the qualifying consumer with the following functions:
to prepare the information and documents and water efficiency plan for submission under regulation 40H; (b)to maintain the records required under regulation 40J;
generally to comply with the provisions of this Part.
Subregulation 2
A water efficiency manager need not be an employee of the qualifying consumer.
Subregulation 3
The qualifying consumer must not appoint any person as the qualifying consumer’s water efficiency manager unless the person has obtained a Certificate of Proficiency issued by the Board for the Water Efficiency Manager course.
Subregulation 4
The qualifying consumer must, before 1 July of the year for which the qualifying consumer is a qualifying consumer (or such later date as the Board may allow in any particular case) —
appoint a water efficiency manager; and
notify the Board of the appointment through the Board’s website at https://www.pub.gov.sg.
Subregulation 5
If any person ceases for any reason to be a water efficiency manager of a qualifying consumer and the person was, immediately before the cessation, the qualifying consumer’s only water efficiency manager, the qualifying consumer must —
within 30 days after the cessation, notify the Board of that fact through the Board’s website at https://www.pub.gov.sg; and
within 90 days after the cessation (or such later date as the Board may allow in any particular case) —
appoint under paragraph (1) another water efficiency manager in substitution of the firstmentioned water efficiency manager; and
notify the Board of that substitute appointment through the Board’s website at https://www.pub.gov.sg.
Subregulation 6
The Board may, at any time, require a qualifying consumer to submit documentary proof that a water efficiency manager of the qualifying consumer fulfils the requirements mentioned in paragraph (3).
Subregulation 7
A consumer that, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.