Cap. 358 sub. leg. E

Water Pollution Control (Tolo Harbour and Channel Water Control Zone) (Appointed Days) Order(Cap. 358, section 7(2) and (3)) [6 March 1987](Format changes—E.R. 5 of 2019) 1. Citation This Order may be cited as the Water Pollution Control (Tolo Harbour and Channel Water Control Zone) (Appointed Days) Order.(E.R. 5 of 2019) 2. Application This Order is applicable to the water control zone declared under section 4 of the Ordinance on 23 February 1982 and known as the Tolo Harbour and Channel Water Control Zone.(E.R. 5 of 2019) 3. Interpretation In this Order— (E.R. 5 of 2019)domestic sewage (住宅污水) has the meaning assigned to that term by section 9(3) of the Ordinance;domestic sewage treatment plant (住宅污水處理裝置) means a plant at which domestic sewage is treated and in which 2 or more of the following categories of items are employed—(a) a grit trap;(b) a screen;(c) a communitor;(d) a sedimentation or settlement tank;(e) aereation;(f) biological treatment through the action of micro-organisms;(g) a submarine pipeline leading to receiving waters;existing deposit (現有的沉積) has the meaning assigned to that term by section 2(1) of the Ordinance;existing discharge (現有的排放) has the meaning assigned to that term by section 2(1) of the Ordinance. 4. Appointed days The day appointed—(a) under section 7(2) of the Ordinance is 1 April 1987; and(b) under section 7(3) of the Ordinance is 1 April 1988. 5. Application of the appointed days to the category of discharge or deposit specified in the Schedule The day appointed—(a) in paragraph 4(a) applies to the categories of discharge or deposit specified in the Schedule; and(b) in paragraph 4(b) applies to existing discharges or deposits of the categories of discharge or deposit specified in the Schedule. Schedule [para. 5]Categories of Discharge or Deposit 1. Any discharge or deposit which is wholly or in part produced in the course of the following classes of trade or industry—(a) food manufacture, including—(i) slaughtering, preparing and preserving meat;(ii) manufacture of dairy products;(iii) canning and preserving of fruits and vegetables;(iv) canning, preserving and processing of fish and crustacea;(v) manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats, except lard;(vi) manufacture of grain mill products;(vii) manufacture of bakery products;(viii) sugar factories and refineries;(ix) manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery;(x) manufacture of other food products; and(xi) manufacture of prepared animal feeds, but excluding restaurants, canteens (unless the discharge or deposit therefrom constitutes part of a discharge or deposit specified in item 1(a) or (b)), and cooked food stalls;(b) beverage industries of—(i) distilling, rectifying and blending spirits;(ii) breweries and manufacture of malt; and(iii) manufacture of soft drinks and carbonated waters including their canning, bottling or other containerisation;(c) manufacture of leather, leather products and leather substitutes, including tanneries and leather finishing but excluding stitching and assembling of shoes, bags and similar articles in which no liquid effluent is produced;(d) the bleaching, dyeing, stencilling, printing and finishing of textiles;(e) manufacture of paper and paper products, comprising the manufacture of pulp, paper, and paperboard, containers and boxes of paper and paperboard, and other articles of pulp, paper and paperboard, but excluding the assembly of dry paper or cardboard articles in which no liquid effluent is produced;(f) manufacture, including formulation, blending, packaging and related processes, of chemicals and chemical products, including—(i) manufacture of basic industrial chemicals;(ii) manufacture of fertilisers and pesticides;(iii) manufacture of synthetic rubber or resins, plastic materials and man-made fibres except glass;(iv) manufacture of paints, varnishes and lacquers;(v) manufacture of drugs and medicines;(vi) manufacture of soap and cleaning preparations, perfumes, cosmetics and other toilet preparations; and(vii) manufacture of candles;(g) manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, except products of petroleum and coal, and including—(i) manufacture of pottery, china and earthenware;(ii) manufacture of glass and glass products except picture framing and other assembly operations in which no liquid effluent is produced;(iii) manufacture of structural clay products; and(iv) manufacture of cement, lime and plaster including concrete batching;(h) basic metal industries, including—(i) iron and steel basic industries; and(ii) non-ferrous metal basic industry (copper, aluminium etc.);(i) manufacture of fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment involving processes of metal surface cleaning, degreasing, pickling, plating (electro-plating or plating otherwise than by electrolysis, whether or not of precious metal), anodizing, chromating, phosphating, chemical milling or, etching, gas scrubbing, and any other metal finishing operations;(j) repair and maintenance of motor vehicles and motor cycles including public transport vehicles;(k) laundering any dry cleaning plants;(l) photographic film processing including motion picture processing. 2. Any discharge or deposit produced from a domestic sewage treatment plant.