44.VENTURE BRILLIANT
DYEING &
PRINTING LTD
NOTE:
23
KWOK
16.8.91
APCO :
SHUI RD, KHAI CHUNG
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1991
FAILURE TO TAKE MEASURES TO ELIMINATE UNNECESSARY
AIE POLLUTANT
12,000 2ND TSUEN
WAN
APCO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCE
NCO : NOISE CONTROL ORDINANCE
DASO DUMPING AT SEA ACT 1974 (OVERSEAS TERRITORIES) ORDER 1975
TO
AN EPD SPOKESMAN SAID IN CASE 1, REED CO. LTD WAS CONVICTED A FINE OF $3,000 PLUS $10,700 FOR 214 DAYS OF CONTINUING OFFENCE, TOTALLING TO $13,700, FOR BREACHING AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCE.
$5,000 $24,000.
IN CASE 2, REED CO LTD WAS CONVICTED TO A MAXIMUM FINE OF PLUS $19,000 FOR 380 DAYS OF CONTINUING OFFENCE, TOTALLING ΤΟ
IN CASE 9, THE DIRECTORS OF CHINESE YMCA WAS CONVICTED WITH NO FINE. THE DEFENDANT, SUBSEQUENT TO RECEIVING THE SUMMONS, WROTE TO THE EPD SETTING OUT A LIST OF MITIGATIONS INCLUDING A DEFINITE PLAN FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE FUEL RESTRICTION REGULATIONS.
THE MITIGATION MEASURES WERE ACCEPTED BY THE COURT TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND REASONABLE.
IN CASE 23, GOOD YEAR RESTAURANT LTD WAS FIND $70,000 FOR ITS THIRD OFFENCE IN FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENT IN A NOISE ABATEMENT NOTICE. THE MAXIMUM FINE FOR BREACHING THIS SECTION OF NCO FOR SECOND OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENCE IS $100,000.
ON THE PROVISION OF NOISE CONTROL ORDINANCE RELATING ΤΟ CARRYING OUT CONSTRUCTION WORK WITHOUT A PERMIT, ONE PERSON AND FOUR COMPANIES WERE PROSECUTED BY THE POLICE AND FINED A TOTAL SUM OF $5,000.
ANOTHER WORK NOT IN $2,000.
PERSON WAS PROSECUTED FOR CARRYING OUT CONSTRUCTION ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS IN A PERMIT AND FINED
COMMENTING ON THE RELATIVELY LOW PINES FOR THESE THE NCO, THE SPOKESMAN COMMENTED THAT NOISE FROM ACTIVITIES REMAINED A PROBLEM.
BREACHES OF CONSTRUCTION
THE EPD HOPED SOON TO INTRODUCE NEW REGULATIONS ΤΟ CONTROL NOISE EMISSIONS FROM PORTABLE COMPRESSORS AND HAND-HELD BREAKERS
(JACK-HAMMERS).
IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE NEW CONTROLS WOULD HELP REDUCE DAY TIME CONSTRUCTION NOISE WHICH, APART FROM PERCUSSIVE PILING, IS AT PRESENT NOT UNDER CONTROL.
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