{"id":97614,"date":"2026-11-05T00:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97614"},"modified":"2026-11-05T00:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:35:59","slug":"as-it-happened-parliament-passes-tougher-haze-law-raising-maximum-fine-to-s20-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97614","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Parliament passes tougher haze law, raising maximum fine to S$20 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Parliament passed amendments to Singapore&#8217;s transboundary haze law on Wednesday (Nov 4), raising the maximum fine for the main offence from S$2 million to S$20 million.<\/p>\n<p>The changes give authorities stronger powers to investigate and act against companies linked to haze pollution.<\/p>\n<p>They also allow restrictions on business dealings with errant entities and action before haze reaches Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill was passed under a Certificate of Urgency, following Singapore&#8217;s worst haze episode since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of the parliamentary debate below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/haze-parliament-pass-tougher-law-live-blog-6520001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n<p><center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Parliament passed amendments to Singapore&#8217;s transboundary haze law on Wednesday (Nov 4), raising the maximum fine for the main offence from S$2 million to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7393,777,19324,863,6445,787,1599,4340,8187,17296,24],"class_list":["post-97614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-fine","tag-happened","tag-haze","tag-law","tag-maximum","tag-million","tag-parliament","tag-passes","tag-raising","tag-s20","tag-tougher","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}