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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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