Environmental Legislation for Water Quality
Management as at 31 December 2005
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Legislation |
Description of Control
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Water Pollution Control Ordinance
(Cap.358) 1980 |
Provides for the designation of control zones
within which discharges of effluent other than domestic sewage
into a foul sewer must be licensed.
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Water Pollution Control (General)
Regulations 1986
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Gives practical effect to the ordinance. |
Water Pollution Control (Appeal Board)
Regulations 1985 |
Sets out procedures to be followed in appeals
against orders made or directions given under the ordinance.
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Water Pollution Control (Sewerage)
Regulation 1994 |
Imposes requirements on private lot owners to
collect and convey wastewater to public sewers and provides
for control over the operation and maintenance of private wastewater
treatment facilities.
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Buildings Ordinance (Cap.123) 1956 |
Allows the Building Authority to require adequate
waste treatment facilities in any new building. Provides for
control over the design of refuse chutes within buildings, private
drainage works and oil storage facilities.
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Buildings Ordinance (Application
to the New Territories) (Cap.121) 1987
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Similar provisions to Cap.123. |
Waste Disposal Ordinance (Cap.354)
1980 |
Prohibits livestock keeping in urban areas and
provides for control over the discharge or deposit of livestock
waste in designated control areas.
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Public Health and Municipal Services
Ordinance (Cap.132) 1960 |
Provides for control over the discharge of hazardous
materials to sewers, and for the control of littering. Also
provides for the designation of bathing beaches and the control
of pollution at such beaches, together with swimming pools and
wells.
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Dumping At Sea Ordinance (Cap. 466)
1995 |
Provides for control on marine dumping, extends
control on marine pollution, gives legal effect to the Marine
Dumping Action Plan.
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Foreshores and Sea Bed (Reclamations)
Ordinance (Cap.127) 1985
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Provides for the control of reclamation and use
of the foreshore and seabed.
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Shipping and Port Control Ordinance
(Cap.313) 1978 |
Prohibits pollution of the sea by oil from land-based
as well as marine sources, and also the dumping of refuse and
general littering from vessels or port-based operations.
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Merchant Shipping (Prevention and
Control of Pollution) Ordinance (Cap.413)
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Provides for the prevention and control of pollution
from ships. |
Merchant Shipping (Prevention of
Oil Pollution) Regulations 1984 (sub. leg. of Cap.413)
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Implements control over oil pollution from ships. |
Merchant Shipping (Control of Pollution
by Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk) Regulations 1987 (sub.
leg. of Cap. 413)
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Implements control over the indiscriminate discharge
of noxious liquid substances from ships. |
Waterworks Ordinance (Cap.102) 1975 |
Prohibits polluting discharges in water gathering
grounds.
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Radiation Ordinance (Cap.303) 1957 |
Controls the use and disposal of radioactive substances.
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Fisheries Protection Ordinance (Cap.171)
1962
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Prohibits the use of explosives and poisons for
fishing.
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Summary Offences Ordinance (Cap.228)
1933 |
Contains provisions relating to littering offences
including marine littering. |