Environment Protection (Effluent Limitations for the Sugar Industry) Regulations 1997 (G.N. No. 34 of 1997).

These Regulations prescribe national environmental standards in relation to effluent limitations for the sugar industry in the Schedule. They shall apply to effluents discharged underground or into a river, stream, spring, canal, reservoir or lake by a sugar factory. Any effluent which: (a) has one or more of the parameters specified in the first column of the Schedule; (b) does not comply with the corresponding limit specified in the second or third column of the Schedule, as the case may be; and (c)is discharged from a factory, shall be deemed to be a pollutant.