BOATS AND WHARVES (SUPPLY OF WATER) REGULATIONS

BOATS AND WHARVES (SUPPLY OF WATER) REGULATIONS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION.

BOATS AND WHARVES (SUPPLY OF WATER)
REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 141, section 8).

[17th September, 1937.]

1. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
'drinking water' means water used or supplied for human con-
sumption, but does not include water supplied solely for
other purposes.

2. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any regula-
tions made under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, or any
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 Medieal and Health ~ces and are maintained in good repair
and in a sanitary condition to his satisfaction.

(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 Medkc~ Health Sefyiee and are main-
tained in good repair and in a sanitary condition to his satisfac-
tion.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation 'in a sanitary con-
dition- shall be deemed to include such limewashing, cement
washing, disinfection and cleansing as the Director of 14-dical and
Health SeFyiecs may from time to time direct.

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
J&diecti and Health ~ces any officer deputed by him. and
any health officer to inspect the supply or the water boat and to
take samples of water therefrom.

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 Medical and Health Services declares
unfit for human consumption.

6. Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation
2, 3, 4 or 5 shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.

7. These regulations may be cited as the Boats and Wharves
(Supply of Water) Regulations.
G.N. 659/37. (Cap. 281.)

G.N. 659/37. (Cap. 281.)

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