AIR POLLUTION CONTROL (SMOKE) REGULATIONS

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL (SMOKE) REGULATIONS

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL (SMOKE) REGULATIONS

(Cap. 311, section 43)

[1 October 1983.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Air Pollution Control
(Smoke) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

'approved device' means a device specified in the Schedule;

'dark smoke' means smoke which, if compared in the appropriate
manner with the Ringelmann Chart or an approved device,
would appear to be as dark as or darker than shade 2, on the
Ringelmann Chart;

'Ringelmann Chart means a shade chart of the type known at the date
of commencement of these regulations as a Ringelmann Chart;

'smoke' includes

(a) dust or fumes; and

(b) soot, ash, grit or gritty particles emitted in smoke or steam.

3. An owner of any premises who operates any chimney or relevant
plant in such a manner that any dark smoke is emitted for
more than 6 minutes in any period of 4 hours or for more than 3
minutes continuously at any one time, commits an offence and is
liable to a fine of $5,000 and in addition to a fine of $100 for every
one quarter of an hour during the whole or any part of which such
offence is knowingly and wilfully continued.

4. The Governor may by order amend the Schedule.

SCHEDULE [reg. 2.]

Approved Devices

1. Micro-Ringelmann Chart

2. Miniature Ringelmann Chart
3. Telesmoke
4. Smokescope

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