Sewer Discharge Control (Amendment) Regulations, 2005

L.N. 378 of 2005

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

Sewer Discharge Control (Amendment) Regulations, 2005

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 4 and 28 of the

Malta Resources Authority Act and following consultation with the

Malta Resources Authority, the Minister for Resources and Infrastructure

has made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Sewer Discharge Citation.

Control Regulations, 2005 and they shall be read and construed as one

with the Sewer Discharge Control Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred L.N. 139 of 2002.

to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on such date as

the Minister for Resources and Infrastructure shall determine, and the

Minsiter for Resources and Infrastructure may determine different dates

for different parts of these regulations.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends regulation

2 of the principal

follows>-

regulations.

(a) in the definition of “Chief Executive”, for the words

“Malta Resources Authority” and “Authority”, there shall be

substituted the words “Water Services Corporation” and

“Corporation” respectively< and

(b) immediately after the definition of “prohibited effluent”,

there shall be added the following new definition<

“ “public sewerage system” means the sewerage system

owned by the Water Services Corporation<”.

Immediately after sub-regulation (2), of regulation 3 of the Amends regulation

3 of the principal

principal regulations, there shall be added the following>

regulations.

“(3) An effluent is considered as prohibited, unless it is

certified as non-toxic to activated sludge as per OECD 209 or

equivalent certification.

(4) Sea-water and reject waters of a reverse-osmosis plant,

a water softener, a desalination plant, a de-ionising plant, and other

treatment plants are to be considered as prohibited effluent.”.

In sub-regulation (5) of regulation 7 of the principal

regulations, for the words “Chief Executive” there shall be substituted

the words “Water Services Corporation”.

In regulation 8 of the principal regulations, immediately after

sub-regulation (3) thereof, there shall be added the following>

“(4) The Chief Executive shall always have the power to

change the conditions of the permit, should circumstances so

require.”.

In regulation 11 of the principal regulations for the word

“Authority” there shall be substituted the words “Water Services

Corporation”.

In Schedule A annexed to the principal regulations, for the

words “competent international organisations” there shall be substituted

the words “Radiation Protection Board”.

In Schedule C annexed to the principal regulations>

(i) in the english text. for the letters “CI” in number 10,

there shall be substituted the letters “Cl mg#l”.<

(ii) add proviso as follows>

“Discharges having higher levels of chlorides may be

authorised, subject to the submission by the owner of the trade

premises of an implementation plan to be agreed by the Water

Services Corporation. The plan will set definite deadlines by

when full compliance with the level specified in Schedule C

of Legal Notice 139 of 2002 will be achieved, taking into

consideration the effect of the quality and quantity of these

discharges on existing infrastructure.”

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