Environment Protection (Effluent Limitations for the Sugar Industry) Regulations 1997

GN No. 34 of 1997

IN FORCE 1ST OCTOBER 1999

Regulations made by the Minister under section 34 of the Environment Protection Act 1991

These regulations may be cited as the Environment Protection (Effluent Limitations for the Sugar Industry) Regulations 1997.


The national environmental standards in relation to effluent limitations for the sugar industry shall be as set out in the Schedule.

Paragraph (1) shall apply to effluents discharged underground or into a river, stream, spring, canal, reservoir or lake by a factory.

(3) Any effluent which-

(a) has one or more of the parameters specified in the first column f the Schedule;

(b) does not comply with the corresponding limit specified int eh second or third column of the Schedule, as the case may be; and

(c) is discharged from a factory,

shall be deemed to be a pollutant.

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