First published in the GovernmentGazette, Electronic Edition, on 31 March 2022 at 5 pm.
No. S 271
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND
MANAGEMENT ACT 1999
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND
MANAGEMENT (GREENHOUSE GASES)
REGULATIONS 2022
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
Regulation
1. Citation and commencement
2. Greenhouse gases
The Schedule
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77 of the
Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999, the National
Environment Agency, with the approval of the Minister for
Sustainability and the Environment, makes the following
Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.These Regulations are the Environmental Protection and
Management (Greenhouse Gases) Regulations 2022 and come into
operation on 1 October 2022.
Greenhouse gases
2.—(1) The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change is prescribed for the purposes of
paragraph (a) of the definition of“greenhouse gas”in section 40A
of the Act, which specifies greenhouse gases under the definition of
“Greenhouse gas (GHG)”in each Glossary annexed to contributions
to the Fifth Assessment Report by Working Group I, Working
Group II and Working Group III, as being the following:
(a) water vapour (H 2O);S 271/2022 1(b) carbon dioxide (CO 2);
(c) nitrous oxide (N 2O);
(d) methane (CH 4);
(e) ozone (O 3);
(f) halocarbons and other chlorine- and bromine-containing
substances dealt with under the Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (adopted in
Montreal in 1987 and subsequently adjusted and amended
in London in 1990, Copenhagen in 1992, Vienna in 1995,
Montreal in 1997 and Beijing in 1999);
(g) sulphur hexafluoride (SF 6), hydrofluorocarbons and
perfluorocarbons.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of
“greenhouse gas”in section 40A of the Act, a substance mentioned
in the first column of the Schedule having the chemical formula
mentioned in the second column of that Schedule against that
substance, is prescribed as a greenhouse gas.
THE SCHEDULE
Regulation 2(2)
GREENHOUSE GASES
First column Second column
Name of greenhouse gas Chemical formula of
greenhouse gas
1. The following Hydrocarbon (HC):
Isobutane HC(CH 3)3
2. The following Hydrofluoroolefin (HFO):
(E)-1-Chloro-3,3,3-trifluoroprop-1-ene trans-CF 3CH=CHClS 271/20222Made on 30 March 2022.
LEE CHUAN SENG
Chairperson,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.
[NEA/LD/40 V.2; AG/LEGIS/SL/94A/2020/8 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 77(3) of the
Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999).S 271/2022 3