1988 Ed.]
Water Pollution Control (General) Regulations
[CAP. 358
D 3
[Subsidiary]
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL (GENERAL)
L.N. 149/86 — L.N. 203/88
REGULATIONS
(Cap. 358, section 46)
[1 April 1987] L.N. 90/87
L.N. 244 of 18 ff; LN375/90
Citation
1. These regulations may be cited as the Water Pollution Control (General) Regulations.
Interpretation
2. (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— “approved sampling point" means a sampling point which has been approved in writing by the Authority for the purpose of these regulations;
"business registration no." means the number assigned by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue under the Business Registration Ordinance (Cap. 310) to any business registration certificate held by the notifier or applicant; "code number" means the number assigned for record purposes by the Authority to any notification or application received by him or to any licence, renewal or variation granted by him;
"determinand" means any factor, property or agent which serves to define the quantity, nature, composition, colour, temperature or biochemical properties of a discharge or deposit or of any component thereof;
"discharge point" means the point at which a discharge first enters or at which a deposit is first likely to enter—
(a) any public drain or public sewer; or
(b) the waters of Hong Kong;
"domestic sewage" has the meaning ascribed to that term in section 9(3) of the Ordinance;
"domestic sewage treatment plant" means a plant at which domestic sewage is treated and in which 2 or more of the following categories of items are employed--
(a) a grit trap;
(b) a screen;
(c) a comminutor;
(d) a sedimentation or settlement tank;