Secretary for the Environment

“ The Authority may—
(a) if satisfied that a vessel uses technology that can reduce the emission of sulphur dioxide when the vessel is in the waters of Hong Kong at least as effectively as the use of low sulphur marine fuel at that time, exempt the vessel from section 5 (1) or renew an exemption granted for the vessel; or (b) if satisfied that compliance with section 5 (1) will pose a risk to the safety of a vessel, exempt the vessel from that section. (2) An exemption may be subject to any conditions the Authority considers appropriate to impose at any time. ”

“ Requests for removal services
(1) A request for a removal service must be made—
(a) in the manner specified by the seller; and (b) before the expiry of 3 days after the consumer takes actual possession of the distributed equipment. (2) Subsection (1) (b) does not prevent the consumer from making the request before taking actual possession of the distributed equipment.
41. Record keeping
(1) The seller must, for the prescribed period, keep a record of each request for a removal service. ”

“ Defence for offence under section 5
(1) If a person is charged with an offence under section 5 (2) , it is a defence for the person to prove—
(a) that the person— (i) exercised all due diligence to prevent the contravention of section 5 (1) ; but (ii) was misled by the supplier of the fuel used by the vessel to operate its specified machinery at the material time as to the sulphur content of the fuel ”

“ The Director may, for enabling a person to use an electronic record as a specified form, from time to time assign or approve any sequence or combination of letters, characters, numbers or symbols as the person’s password. ”

“ This Regulation is a regulation made under that section.
2. This Regulation provides for—
(a) matters related to registered suppliers, including the registration of suppliers, provision of recycling labels, submission of returns, keeping of records and documents, submission of audit reports, and payment of recycling levies; (b) matters related to sellers, including the provision of recycling labels and receipts, endorsement of and change to removal service plans, and requests for removal services; and (c) the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of the parent Ordinance. ”

“ In particular, section 2 contains the definitions of compliant fuel and non-compliant fuel—
(a) compliant fuel—means certain fuel with sulphur content not exceeding 0.5% by weight, liquefied natural gas or any fuel approved by the air pollution control authority (Authority) ; and (b) non-compliant fuel—means fuel that is not compliant fuel. Part 2
3. Division 1 of Part 2 deals with the prohibition of the use of non-compliant fuels by vessels when they are in the waters of Hong Kong. ”

“ EN ISO 20884:2011: “Petroleum products—Determination of sulfur content of automotive fuels—Wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry” published by the European Committee for Standardization. ”