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6 PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Resource Sustainability Act 2019 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Agency” means the National Environment Agency established under the National Environment Agency Act (Cap. 195);

“authorised officer” means an authorised officer appointed under section 5(2);

“consumer”, in relation to any regulated goods or regulated product, means an individual who purchases or intends to purchase the regulated goods or regulated product for household use or private consumption;

“dispose”, in relation to any thing, means to dispose of the thing as waste;

“import” does not include the bringing into Singapore of any regulated goods or regulated product which are to be taken out of Singapore on the same conveyance on which they were brought into Singapore without any landing or transhipment within Singapore;

“licensed e-waste recycler” means a person who is licensed under section 23(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act (Cap. 95) to operate a disposal facility that receives, stores, sorts, processes or treats electrical and electronic waste;

“licensed scheme” means a producer responsibility scheme operated by a person who is licensed under section 29;

“licensed waste collector” means a person who is licensed under section 31 of the Environmental Public Health Act;