NEA noted that both were first-time offenders of high-rise littering.
SINGAPORE - Two HDB flat owners have been fined by the State Courts for littering from their respective high-rise units, after they were unable to prove within a given time that they were not responsible for the offence.
The man was fined $700 on June 11 for throwing an object out of a toilet window from his unit in Bedok North Street 2. The presumption clause came into effect on July 1, 2023, to prevent registered owners and tenants of Housing Board flats from throwing objects from their units.– is applied only when it is proven in any proceedings that littering from a residential flat has been committed, according to the agency.
NEA’s surveillance cameras caught the two acts after they were installed due to several reports of high-rise littering.From 2021 to 2023, NEAOver the same period, the agency deployed an average of 2,500 cameras each year and conducted about 1,100 enforcement actions yearly on average against those who were caught for high-rise littering.
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