Hong Kong Regulations

SEWAGE SERVICES (TRADE EFFLUENT SURCHARGE) REGULATION - SECT 3

Trade effluent surcharge rates

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 4, a consumer or agent who is liable
to pay a trade effluent surcharge under section 4 of the Ordinance shall,
where the premises to which the surcharge relates produce trade effluent in
the course of a trade, business of manufacture listed in column 2 of Schedule
1, pay a surcharge-

   (a)  if the billing period for the surcharge begins on a date before 1
        August 2008 and ends on a date between 1 August 2008 and 31 July 2009

(both days inclusive), at the rate calculated in accordance with the formula
specified in Part I of Schedule 5;

(b) if the billing period for the surcharge begins on a date between 1 August
2008 and 31 July 2009 (both days inclusive) and ends on a date before 1 August
2009, at the rate specified in column 3 of Schedule 1;

   (c)  if the billing period for the surcharge begins on a date between 1
        August 2008 and 31 July 2009 (both days inclusive), and ends on or
        after 1 August 2009, at the rate calculated in accordance with the
        formula specified in Part II of Schedule 5; or

   (d)  if the billing period for the surcharge begins on or after 1 August
        2009, at the rate specified in column 4 of Schedule 1, (L.N. 106 of
        2008; L.N. 199 of 2008) for each cubic metre of water supplied by the
        Water Authority, other than water supplied specifically for flushing
        purposes.

(2) For a trade, business or manufacture listed in Schedule 3, the amount of
the trade effluent surcharge determined under this section or section 4, as
the case may be, shall be equal to 80% of the volume of water supplied, other
than water supplied specifically for flushing purposes, multiplied by the
applicable rate. (Enacted 1995)
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______ Note: The amount of sewage charge payable pursuant to this section
shall be reduced in respect of-

   (a)  the period commencing on 1 April 2002 and ending on 31 March 2003
        (please see sections 2(2) and 6 of the Revenue (Variation and
        Reduction of Fees and Charges) Order 2002 ( Cap 2 sub. leg. R);

   (b)  bills issued within the period commencing on 1 August 2003 and ending
        on 30 November 2003 and bills that relate back to that period

(please see sections 4 to 6 of the Sewage Services (Reduction of Sewage Charge
and Trade Effluent Surcharge) Regulation 2003 (L.N. 131 of 2003)).