Environment Protection Act 2002

GN No. 44 of 2003
In force: 1st September 2003.

Regulations made by the Minister under sections 39 and 96 of the Environment Protection Act 2002

These regulations may be cited as the Environment Protection (Standards for effluent discharge) Regulations 2003. Under this regulation, no person shall discharge effluent onto land, into a watercourse or into a water body unless he ensures that the parameters of the effluent do not exceed the permissible limits set out in the Second Schedule. Under section 4, notwithstanding regulation 3 or any other enactment, no person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any effluent into a water body or watercourse used or earmarked to be used for potable water supply.

Under section 5, notwithstanding regulation 3, any person using an influent, the concentration or value of any parameter of which exceeds the permissible limit for that parameter set out in the Second Schedule, shall ensure that the concentration or value of the parameter in the effluent does not exceed that of the influent.