Cap. 599B 《船艇及貨運碼頭(供水)規例》Boats and Wharves (Supply of Water) Regulations

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版本日期: 2020-01-16

Boats and Wharves (Supply of Water) Regulations

[17 September 1937]

(Format changes—E.R. 1 of 2020)

Editorial Note: These Regulations were originally made under section 8 of the repealed Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance (Cap. 141). Notwithstanding the repeal of that Ordinance, these Regulations continue in operation and are deemed for all purposes to have been made under section 7 of the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance (Cap. 599). (See section 17 of Cap. 599)

1.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

drinking water (飲用水) means water used or supplied for human consumption, but does not include water supplied solely for other purposes.

2.

(1)

Notwithstanding anything contained in any regulations made under the Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance (Cap. 548), or any certificate or licence granted in pursuance of such regulations, no vessel shall ply as a water boat unless the vessel and all the tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other fittings, appliances and utensils for the storage of water therein, for the supply of water therefrom or used in connexion therewith have been approved by the Director of Health and are maintained in good repair and in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction. (24 of 2005 s. 55)

(2)

No person shall supply any water to any water boat or any drinking water from any wharf unless all the tanks, pipes, hoses, pumps and other fittings, appliances and utensils used for or in connexion with the supply of such water have been approved by the Director of Health and are maintained in good repair and in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation in a sanitary condition (衞生狀況) shall be deemed to include such limewashing, cement washing, disinfection and cleansing as the Director of Health may from time to time direct.

(L.N. 76 of 1989)

3.

No animal or bird shall be suffered to be in or upon any water boat, or in any place where it may pollute any water with which water boats are supplied.

4.

Every person supplying water to any water boat, every person in charge of any water boat and every person supplying drinking water from any wharf shall permit the Director of Health, any officer deputed by him and any health officer to inspect the supply or the water boat and to take samples of water therefrom.

(L.N. 76 of 1989)

5.

No person shall supply, or suffer to be supplied, to or from any water boat any water or from any wharf any drinking water which the Director of Health declares unfit for human consumption.

(L.N. 76 of 1989)

6.

Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation 2, 3, 4 or 5 shall be liable to a fine at level 2.

(L.N. 80 of 1994; E.R. 1 of 2020)

7.

These regulations may be cited as the Boats and Wharves (Supply of Water) Regulations.