Irrigation orcl'(lps (Health Precautions) Regulations, 1988

L.N. 7 1 of 198!i

PREVENTION OF DISEASE ORDINANCE

(C AP. 36)

Irrigation orcl'(lps (Health Precautions) Regulations, 1988

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 43 of the Pre-

vention of Disease Ordinance, tile Minister for Social Policy, on the

advice of lhe Cou ncil of Health, hllS made the following rcgulations: -

I. These regulations may be ci ted as IlK Irrigation of Crops

(Health Precautions) Regulations, 1988.

l. No person may irrigate any field, where crops in tended for

human consumption are, or may be , cullivated , with any sewage or sew-

ageoontaminated water.

Hadd ma jista' jsaqqi xi gbalqa rein il-tu;ejjex mahsubin ghall- Projbizziooi ,."

konsum mill-bniedem ikunu qeghdin, Jew jislghu, jitkabbru, b'xi ilma '",-"jo,,·,lm.

lad-<h-enoU

tad-drenagg Jew b'ilma kontaminat b'ilma tad-drenagg.

J. Is-S uprintendent ghandu drill jordna I-qbid uljew id- 0ISd"

diSlruujoni ta' hxejjeK li jkunu ssaqqew b'j]ma tad·drenaggjew b'ilma m"runjoni.

konlaminat b'ilma tad-drenagg.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent to order the seizure

and/or destruction of crops which have been irrigated with sewage or

sewage oontaminated water.

The provisions of regulations 2 and 3 ofthcse regulatioll5 shall

not apply to any field irrigated with effluent from sewage whieh has been

treated and purified at a Govern ment-run sewage treatmen t plant in re-

spect of such crops whieh the Superintendent has approved could be cul-

tivated in such field.

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