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Offences and penalties.

Name in which proceedings

for offence may be

brought

By-laws nat

to apply to refuse containing

radioactive

Subalance.

PART V.

Offences and miscellaneous.

24. (1) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of any of the by-laws contained in Part II shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.

(2) Any person who-

(a) contravenes any of the provisions of by-law 16, 17, 19 or 20

or of paragraph (1) of by-law 18; or

(6) fails to comply with any direction of the Council given under the provisions of the proviso to by-law 22 or of the proviso to paragraph (2) of by-law 23.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be fable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars.

25. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these by-laws may be brought in the name of the Council.

26. (1) The provisions of these by-laws shall not apply to any refuse which contains any radioactive substance.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the expression "radioactive substance" means any substance consisting of or containing any radio active chemical element.

Substances.

4. Poisonous substances,

1: Substances giving off

infarmable vapour.

& Substances rendered

dangerous by inter- action with water.

1. Compressed gases.

Description.

Potassium cyanide used in electro-plating, arsenic used in leather tanning, lead used in battery con- struction, type founding and type setting and manganese used in the manufacture of enamel.

Tar and tar distillates arising from oil installn- Lions, petrol solutions used in the manufacture of rubber shoes, amyl acetate solutions and ethyl acetate solutions used in the manufacture of artificial pearls and thinners used in the manu- facture of paint and lacquer.

Calcium carbide used in acetylene generation.

Compressed gases used in the manufacture of fuorescent and neon tubes and of bottled gases,

Made by the Urban Council this 2nd day of August, 1960.

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SCHEDULE

Dangerous refuse.

Substances.

Description.

1960.

[bylaw 31

Approved by the Legislative Council this 21st day of September,

The Road

база

Deptaly Clerk of Councils.

hem.

1. Explosive substances.

2. Strong supporters of

combustion.

1. Corrosive wastes.

Discarded or defective cases containing go- powder or potassium chlorate used in the manu facture of fireworks, sweepings of sulphor used in the manufacture of matches, or any older explosive substances,

Cotton or woollen waste arising from exile industries, polystyrene lakes or powder arising from plastic button industries and scrap rubber arising from the rubber industry.

Acid wastes arising from the manufacture of acids, acid wastes (including chromic acid and caustic soda) arising from electro-plating, add wastes arising from textile bleaching and dying and acid wastes arising from the manufacture of enamel and light thetalware,

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

21st September, 1960.

Explanatory Note.

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(Thir Note is not part of the by-laws, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

These by-laws replace, with amendment, the Domestic Cleanliness and Prevention of Diseases By-laws and the Scavenging By-laws, 1935, both of which are contained in Schedule A of the repealed Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935.

(Secretariat GR5/3231/60)