Clause 11

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) No person shall discharge, or cause or permit to be discharged, any trade effluent into any public sewerage system or any drain-line or sewer communicating with a public sewerage system, except —

with the prior written approval of the Board; and

in accordance with the conditions of that approval, if any, and any regulations under this Act providing for the control of such discharge.(1A) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the discharge of any dangerous or hazardous substance or any trade effluent containing any dangerous or hazardous substance under section 16A.”;

by deleting the words “public sewer” wherever they appear in subsection (2) and substituting in each case the words “public sewerage system”;

by deleting the words “exercised due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence under subsection (1)” in subsection (3) and substituting the words “taken all reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to prevent the contravention of subsection (1)”;

by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(6) The court may order any person who is convicted of an offence under this section to pay the cost incurred by the Board, or by the owner or occupier of any premises, in carrying out any work to restore the public sewerage system to its original condition, or to clear the public sewerage system of the trade effluent so discharged.”; and

by deleting the words “public sewers” in the section heading and substituting the words “public sewerage system”.