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Section 40: In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires–
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“air pollution” means a condition of the ambient air
arising wholly or partly from the presence of one or
more pollutants in the air that endangers the health,
safety or welfare of persons or interferes with the
normal enjoyment of life or property;
“ambient air” means the atmosphere within and outside
a structure or within any underground space;
“controlled substance” include chlorofluorocarbons,
other fully halogenated chlorofluorocarbons, halon,
carbon tetrachloride, 1,1,1, trichloroethane, methy1
bromide whether they are virgin, recovered, recycled
or reclaimed but does not include any controlled
substance–
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Duties of
owners of
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Identification
of authorised
officers.
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(a) which is in a manufactured product other
than a container used for the transportation
or storage of that substance;
(b) originating from inadvertent or coincidental
production during a manufacturing process,
or from use as a processing agent which is
present in chemical substance as trace
impurities, or which is emitted during product
manufacture or handling;
“controlled product” means a product that contains,
is made with, is dependent on or designed to contain
a controlled substance;
“chlorofluorocarbon” means a fully halogenated
chlorofluorocarbon each molecule of which contains
one, two or three carbonations in the categories set
out in the Fourth Schedule ;
“halon” means an abrominated chemical related to a
chlorofluorocarbon, used in fire fighting and having
a very high ozone depleting potential set out in
column III of the Fourth Schedule including their
isomers;
“Protocol” means the Protocol on Substances that
deplete the ozone layer adopted in Montreal, Canada
in 1987.
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