TITLE: Environment Protection Act 2002

GN No. 43 of 2004

These regulations may be cited as the Environment Protection (Effluent Discharge Permit) (Amendment) Regulations 2004.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations is amended by adding the following definitions in their appropriate alphabetical order -

" industrial slaughtering plant" means a plant that processes not less than 5000 birds per month;

" livestock breeding" means -

(a) a cattle operation of over 50 heads reared collectively at one site at any time and generating liquid effluents; or

(b) a pig operation of over 20 heads reared collectively at one site at any time;

" mechanical workshop" means a workshop carrying out repairs and maintenance of buses, trucks, cars, or heavy mechanical plants or engines and generating not less than 600 litres of used oil per month;

" slaughtering" means the processing of live birds such as chicken, ducks and turkey into carcasses for consumption;