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Water Pollution Control

[1980 Ed.

671905.3

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"Communal 671905.22

Prohibited

discharges into waters of Hong

Kong and

inland waters.

(3) The Governor may from time to time by order published in the Gazette which is declared to be applicable to any water control zone appoint a day on and after which—

(a) section 8(1)(a) shall apply to all existing discharges into the waters of Hong Kong in that zone or to all existing deposits which, or a component of which, is likely to enter the waters in that zone or to any specified-category ---of-such-discharges or deposits;

(b) section 8(1)(b) shall apply to all existing discharges into inland waters in that zone or to all existing deposits which, or a component of which, is likely to enter the inland waters in that zone or to any specified-category- of such discharges or deposits:

(c) section 9(1) shall apply to all existing discharges into a public, sewer or public drain in that zone or to all existing deposits which, or a component of which, is likely to enter a public sewer or public drain in that zone, or to any specified category of such discharges or deposits.

(4) For the purposes of an order under this section, a category of discharge or deposit may be determined by reference to-

(a) the discharge or deposit of a particular class or descrip- tion of matter or of matter resulting from the operation of a particular class or description of trade or industry; (b) the discharge or deposit of matter at a particular rate or

in a particular quantity during a specified period; (c) where section 9 applies, in addition to paragraphs (a) and (b), the fact that the discharge or deposit is of domestic sewage or surface water and is made into a public sewer or public drain provided for the carriage of foul water or of surface drainage water,

or a combination of all or any such factors.

(5) An order under this section, may, in respect of the same water control zone, appoint different days for discharges, or any category thereof, and for deposits, or any-category-thereof.

8. (1) Subject to section 12, a person commits an offence who discharges--

waste

(a) any poisonous, noxious or polluting matter into the waters

of Hong Kong in a water control zone;

67/905.4. (b) any matter into any inland waters in a water control zone

(A)

which tends (either directly or in combination with other matter which has entered those waters) to impede the proper flow of the water in a manner leading or likely to lead to a substantial aggravation of pollution.

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