Hong Kong Ordinances

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCE - SECT 45

Protection of Crown and public officers

(1) No liability shall rest on the Crown or upon any public officer by reason
of the fact that any licence is granted or continued under this Ordinance for
the discharge or deposit of any matter into the waters of  Hong Kong or into
inland waters or into a communal sewer or communal  drain. (Amended 67 of 1990
s. 22)

(2) A public officer shall not be personally liable in respect of any act or
omission of his if it was done or made by him in the honest belief that it was
required or authorized in the exercise of any power, function or duty of his
under this Ordinance.

(3) The protection conferred on public officers by subsection (2) in respect
of any act or omission shall not in any way affect any liability of the Crown
in tort for that act or omission.