AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Water Pollution Regulations1 (Amendment)
Subordinate Law No. 31 of 19922

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following Regulations under the Water Pollution Act 1984.
Dated 3 December 1992.
bill wood
Minister
terry connolly
Minister

Principal Regulations
1.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Water Pollution Regulations.
Commencement
2.  These Regulations commence on the day on which they are notified in the Gazette.
Interpretation
3.  Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from paragraphs (2) (a), (b) and (c) “Column 1 of”;
	(b)	by omitting from paragraphs (2) (a), (b) and (c) “column” and substituting “Schedule”; and
	(c)	by omitting from paragraph (2) (c) “4” and substituting “3”.
Discharge into Class P waters
4.  Regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations is amended—
	(a)	by omitting from subregulation (5) all words from and including “unless—” and substituting the following:
“unless the waste has been treated according to a method of disinfection which the Authority, by notice in the Gazette, declares to be acceptable.”; and
	(b)	by omitting subregulation (7).
Discharge into Class C waters
5.  Regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2), (3), (5) and (7) to (13) (inclusive).
Discharge into Class R waters
6.  Regulation 10 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2), (3), (4), (6) and (8) to (13) (inclusive).
Discharge into Class O waters
7.  Regulation 11 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2), (5) and (6).
Discharge into Class U waters
8.  Regulation 12 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulations (2) and (3).
Repeal of Part
9.  Part IV of the Principal Regulations is repealed.
Schedules
10.  Schedules 1, 2 and 4 to the Principal Regulations are repealed and the following Schedules substituted:
	SCHEDULE 1	Paragraph 2 (2) (a)
Restricted substances in relation to Class p and class u waters

Arsenic 
Barium
Boron 
Cadmium 
Chloride
Chromium (hexavalent)
Copper 
Cyanide 
Fluoride
Iron (dissolved) 
Lead
Magnesium 
Manganese (dissolved)
Mercury 
Methylene blue active substances (anionic surfactants as)
Nitrogen in the form of ammonia 
Nitrogen (nitrate plus nitrite) 
Pesticides—
Aldrin 
Chlordane
D.D.T.
Dieldrin 
Endrin
Heptachlor
Heptachlor epoxide 
Lindane 
Methoxychlor 
Toxaphene
Organophosphates or carbamates
Herbicides—
2, 4-D
2, 4, 5-T 
Phenolic compounds 
Selenium
Silver 
Sulphate
Uranyl ion 
Zinc

	SCHEDULE 2	Paragraph 2 (2) (b)
Restricted substances in relation to Class C and class r waters

Arsenic
Cadmium
Chromium (hexavalent)
Copper
Cyanide
Lead
Mercury
Methylene blue active substances
Nickel
Pesticides—Organochlorides
Aldrin
D.D.T.
D.D.E.
Dieldrin
Chlordane
Endosulphan
Endrin
Heptachlor
Lindane
Methoxychlor
Toxaphene
Pesticides—Organophosphates
Azinphosmethyl
Ciodrin
Coumaphos
Diazinon
Dichlorvos
Dioxathion
Disulfonton
Dursban
Ethion
E.P.N.
Fenthion
Malathion
Mevinphos
Naled
Oxydemeton Methyl
Parathion
Phosphamidon
T.E.P.P.
Trichlorophon
Pesticides—Carbamates
Carbaryl
Zectran
Pesticides—Herbicides
Aminotriazole
Dalapon
Dicamba
Dichlobenil
Dichlone
Diquat
Diuron
2, 4-D (B.E.E.)
Fenac (Sodium salt)
Silvex (B.E.E.)
Silvex (P.G.B.E.)
Simazine
Pesticides—Botanicals
Allethrin
Pyrethrum
Rotenone
Phenolic compounds
Polychlorinated biphenyls (P.C.B.’s)
Zinc

	SCHEDULE 3	Paragraph 2 (2) (c)

RESTRICTED SUBSTANCES IN RELATION TO CLASS O WATERS
Arsenic	Silver	
Cadmium	Zinc	
Total Chromium	Cyanide	
Copper	Phenolic compounds	
Lead	Total Chlorine residual	
Mercury	Ammonia	
Nickel	Organochlorides	
NOTES
1.	Reprinted as at 31 July 1991.
2.	Notified in the ACT Gazette on 8 December 1992.

©  Australian Capital Territory 1992