Hong Kong Regulations

BOATS AND WHARVES (SUPPLY OF WATER) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any regulations made under the
Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance ( Cap 548), or any certificate or
licence granted in pursuance of such regulations, no vessel shall ply as a
water boat unless the vessel and all the tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other
fittings, appliances and utensils for the storage of water therein, for the
supply of water therefrom or used in connection therewith have been approved
by the Director of Health and are maintained in good repair and
in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction. (24 of 2005 s. 55)

(2) No person shall supply any water to any water boat or any drinking water
from any wharf unless all the tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other fittings,
appliances and utensils used for or in connection with the supply of such
water have been approved by the Director of Health and are maintained in good
repair and in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation "in a sanitary condition"
(衞生狀況) shall be deemed to include such limewashing, cement washing,
disinfection and cleansing as the Director of Health may from time to time
direct. (L.N. 76 of 1989)

"in a sanitary condition" (衞生狀況)