s 78 Regulations
78.—(1) The Minister may make regulations necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act (except Part 4). (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for or with respect to, or to otherwise make provision for, all or any of the following matters:(a) the registration requirements in relation to —(i) regulated goods; (ii) suppliers of regulated goods; and (iii) registrable corporations; (aa) the regulation of any advertisement of regulated goods (whether or not originating in Singapore) accessible by a person physically present in Singapore (called in this paragraph a person in Singapore), including —(i) any information relating to the energy efficiency of the goods that must be contained in any such advertisement; (ii) the prohibition of any advertisement with respect to which any prescribed requirement is not complied with (called in this paragraph a non-compliant advertisement); and (iii) requirements in relation to the prevention of publication, rectification or withdrawal of any non-compliant advertisement (including the removal of any non-compliant advertisement or the disabling of access by a person in Singapore to any non-compliant advertisement, if published on the Internet) and the person in Singapore or person with a business establishment in Singapore that must comply with such requirements;[Act 10 of 2026 wef 01/07/2026] (ab) the circumstances in which a person —(i) that imports or manufactures regulated goods for supply in Singapore, and subsequently uses or permits another person to use those regulated goods for a purpose other than for such supply; or (ii) that imports goods for the person’s own use, and subsequently —(A) uses those goods in circumstances where the import would (if it had been for or under those circumstances) have been a prohibited import of regulated goods under section 12(1)(b); or (B) permits another person to use those goods in prescribed circumstances, commits an offence; [Act 10 of 2026 wef 01/07/2026] (b) the form of any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4); (c) the preparation of any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4), including the person that should prepare the same and any criteria that the person must satisfy; (d) the information and documents to be included in or to accompany any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4); (e) without affecting paragraph (d), in relation to any report or plan mentioned in this Act (except Part 4), the methods, or criteria for the methods, by which the amounts of reductions, removals, offsets, energy production, energy consumption or any other matters are to be measured or determined, including any one or more of the following:(i) conditions relating to the use of different methods or criteria; (ii) rating systems for those methods; (iii) the particular rating given to each of those methods; (f) the period within which any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4) is to be submitted (including at prescribed intervals); (g) the manner in which any application, report, plan or other document mentioned in this Act (except Part 4) is to be submitted, including the person that should submit the same and any criteria that the person must satisfy; (h) the implementation of energy efficiency measures proposed in any energy efficiency improvement plan under section 28; (i) the criteria which any person carrying out any assessment required under this Act (except Part 4) must satisfy; (j) in relation to an energy manager under Part 3 —(i) the appointment, training and qualification of an energy manager; (ii) the functions and duties of an energy manager; and (iii) the powers of an energy manager, being necessary powers for the discharge of the energy manager’s functions and duties; (k) any fees and charges payable for an application under, or for any purpose of, this Act (except Part 4); (l) any other matter that is required or permitted to be prescribed to give effect to this Act (except Part 4).[24/2017; 23/2018] (3) Regulations made under this section may make different provision —(a) for different classes, descriptions or types of goods, persons or industry sectors; and (b) for different circumstances (including, in relation to subsection (2)(e), the circumstances in which the reductions, removals, offsets, energy production, energy consumption or other matters occur).[24/2017; 23/2018] (4) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of coordinating the exercise of powers by the Director-General under this Act and the exercise of powers by any other sector regulator mentioned in Part 4, and may, in particular, make regulations to provide for the procedure to be followed —(a) in determining, in a particular case or category of cases, whether the Director-General (or an authorised officer) should exercise his or her powers or whether a sector regulator (or a transport sector authorised officer) should exercise his, her or its powers; and (b) where the Director-General and a sector regulator, or their respective authorised officers or transport sector authorised officers, may exercise their respective powers concurrently or conjunctively. (5) The Minister may, in making any regulations under this section, provide that any contravention of any of the provisions of such regulations is an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $10,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or with both.