Hong Kong Regulations

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL (GENERAL) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 17B

Offence for contravention of licence provision

(1) A person who contravenes any of the provisions of a licence granted under
the Ordinance as are specified in subregulation (2) commits an offence and is
liable to a fine of $200000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

(2) The provisions specified for the purpose of subregulation (1) are any
provision-

   (a)  stipulating a limit of a characteristic or constituent of a discharge
        or deposit;

   (b)  requiring that a discharge or deposit shall not contain any prohibited
        substance;

   (c)  requiring or specifying the desludging of a septic tank or the keeping
        of records of sludge removed in any desludging;

   (d)  requiring or specifying the proper disposal of sludge removed in the
        desludging of a septic tank;

   (e)  requiring or specifying the keeping of records of sludge or screenings
        removed from a domestic sewage treatment plant or a wastewater
        treatment facility, or the proper disposal of such sludge or
        screenings;

   (f)  requiring or specifying the provision, operation or maintenance of a
        wastewater treatment facility;

   (g)  requiring or specifying the provision of standby wastewater treatment
        equipment;

   (h)  requiring or specifying the provision of a sampling point or suitable
        and accessible facilities at such a point;

   (i)  requiring or specifying the provision, operation or maintenance of any
        equipment, facility or device for measuring a characteristic or
        constituent of a discharge or deposit;

   (j)  requiring or specifying the carrying out of routine self-monitoring,
        recording or analyzing of a characteristic or constituent of a
        discharge or deposit or the making available of the results of such
        monitoring, recording or analyzing to the Authority;

   (k)  requiring or specifying notification to the Authority of any emergency
        affecting compliance with the licence;

   (l)  requiring or specifying notification to the Authority of any
        circumstance that may alter a characteristic or constituent of a
        discharge or deposit. (L.N. 324 of 1994)