Section 72
Power to make regulations
of Sewerage Services Enactment 2017
The Minister may make regulations which are necessary or expedient for carrying out, or giving effect to, the purposes of this Enactment.
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations in respect of all or any of the following matters:
(a)
to prescribe the minimum standards and specifications which shall be used in the design, construction, installation, protection, operation and maintenance of any sewerage system;
(b)
to prescribe all matters relating to the issuance of licences granted under this
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Enactment, including the eligibility of persons applying for licences, licence fees for different types of licences and licensed activities, the duration of the licences, the forms of licences, the standard conditions of the licences, renewal fees and other processing charges;
(c)
to regulate the supply and use of equipment by a sewerage services contractor or a connection contractor in providing sewerage services or executing or carrying out a connection;
(d)
to prescribe the areas in which septic tanks shall be desludged;
(e)
to prescribe the means to be adopted, whether by prohibition or otherwise, to prevent or abate any nuisance likely to arise or arising from the construction of any private sewerage system or septic tank;
(f)
to regulate the services provided by a sewerage services contractor Including provisions for recovery of charges and fees for sewerage services, connection, entry into any premises by a sewerage services contractor or any person authorized by him for purposes related to the sewerage services;
(g)
to prescribe the manner in which plans and specifications in respect of any proposed sewerage system are to be submitted and approved under this
Enactment;
(h)
to prescribe fee and charges which may be prescribed under this Enactment;
(i)
to prescribe the offences which may be compounded and the forms to be used and the method and procedure for compounding offences;
(j)
to prescribe any matter for which this Enactment makes express provision to be made by regulations; and
(k)
to prescribe all other matters as are necessary or expedient to be prescribed for giving to this Enactment.
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