IRRIGATION OF CROPS (HEALTH PRECAUTIONS) REGULATIONS

IRRIGATION OF CROPS (HEALTH PRECAUTIONS)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 36.30

IRRIGATION OF CROPS (HEALTH PRECAUTIONS)

REGULATIONS

16th September, 1988

LEGAL NOTICE 71 of 1988.

The title of these Regulations is Irrigation of Crops (Health

Precautions) Regulations.

No person may irrigate any field, where crops intended for

human consumption are, or may be, cultivated, with any sewage or

sewage contaminated water.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Public Health to

order the seizure and/or destruction of crops which have been

irrigated with sewage or sewage contaminated water.

The provisions of regulations 2 and 3 of these Regulations

shall not apply to any field irrigated with effluent from sewage

which has been treated and purified at a government-run sewage

treatment plant in respect of such crops which the Superintendent

of Public Health has approved could be cultivated in such field.