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to deal with these matters rather than an ad hoc tribunal
as at present provided for. The reference to the Lands
Tribunal necessitates several consequential amendments
including a minor amendment to the Lands Tribunal Ordinance.
7.
Sir, the Water Pollution Control Ordinance which
this Bill will amend, is largely an enabling ordinance,
in that it sets out the basic principles and provisions of
the water pollution control arrangements, while leaving
the details of the methods of calculation of quantities
and rates of discharges, the form and content of notices
and applications and other such matters to be dealt with in
regulations to be made by the Governor-in-Council.
Comprehensive regulations have been drafted, and with your
permission, Sir, I should like to take this opportunity to
draw the attention of Members of this Council to the fact
that we have published these regulations in draft form in
Special Supplement No.5 of the Government Gazette of
31 May 1985.
8.
The draft Water Pollution Control (General)
Regulations, as is inevitable with pollution control and
environmental legislation, are quite lengthy and somewhat
complex, and include a number of what may appear to be
rather intimidating forms, despite the best efforts of
the draftsman to keep them as straightforward as possible.
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