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Appointment of Environmental Control Coordinator or Environmental Control Officer for specified premises

Environmental Public Health Act 1987

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—(1) This section applies to premises for which an environmental sanitation programme is required (called specified premises).(2) The Agency may, with the approval of the Minister, by order in the Gazette —(a)designate as specified premises any publicly accessible premises (or class of publicly accessible premises);(b)designate as specified premises any of the following premises (or class of premises) that are not publicly accessible:(i)any premises (or class of premises) owned, managed or occupied by the Government or a statutory body;(ii)any premises (or class of premises) used, or intended to be used, for a commercial or an industrial purpose, or for mixed purposes the predominant purpose of which is either a commercial or an industrial purpose;(iii)any recreational facility or class of recreational facilities;(iv)any common property (or class of common property) of any residential premises (or class of residential premises), or of any premises (or class of premises) mentioned in sub‑paragraph (ii);(v)any premises (or class of premises) for which an environmental sanitation programme is assessed to be necessary to minimise or alleviate the risk of, or to prevent or manage, an outbreak or a spread of any infectious disease;(c)designate any class, description or type of specified premises for which an Environmental Control Coordinator must be appointed; and(d)designate any class, description or type of specified premises for which an Environmental Control Officer must be appointed.(3) The manager of any specified premises must —(a)where the specified premises are of a class, description or type for which an Environmental Control Coordinator must be appointed — appoint a registered Environmental Control Coordinator as the Environmental Control Coordinator for that specified premises; or(b)where the specified premises are of a class, description or type for which an Environmental Control Officer must be appointed — appoint a registered Environmental Control Officer as the Environmental Control Officer for that specified premises.(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the manager of the specified premises may appoint himself, herself or itself as the Environmental Control Coordinator or Environmental Control Officer (as the case may be) for the specified premises in accordance with that subsection if the manager is registered as such under this Act.(5) Any person that contravenes subsection (3)(a) or (b) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —(a)for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $5,000; and(b)for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

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