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Title: Marine Pollution Control Act CH
Category: Ocean Affairs Council(海洋委員會)
Chapter 4 The Prevention of Pollution from Maritime Projects and Marine Facilities
Article 20
Those who use marine facilities to engage in the exploration or extraction of oil, the conveyance of oil or chemical substances, or the discharge of wastewater or sewage reaching the scale announced by the central competent authority shall first submit marine pollution control plans that state specifically the contents of marine pollution control tasks, marine monitoring and response measures, and other matters designated by the central competent authority and receive approval from the central competent authority before they may engage in such activities.
Those who have obtained permission from the authority of the foregoing paragraph to engage in the exploration or extraction of oil or the conveyance of oil shall continuously perform marine monitoring and regularly report monitoring records to the competent authority, and shall maintain records of exploration, extraction or conveyance when using marine facility.
Article 21
Wastewater or sewage, oil, waste, hazardous substances or other polluting substances that have been designated and officially announced by the central competent authority may not be discharged, leaked or dumped into the sea. However, those who receive permission from the central competent authority may discharge oil, wastewater or sewage into the sea. Records of discharges shall be maintained.
The records in the rear section of Paragraph 2 of the foregoing article and in the foregoing paragraph shall be maintained, reported and kept on file for at least ten years pursuant to the regulations of the central competent authority.
The central competent authority in consultation with the industry competent authority shall determine regulations for applications for permission, conditions, review procedures, cancellation, a change in discharge permission, the suspension of use facilities, which shall be filed for future reference, and other binding matters for the discharge of oil, wastewater or sewage into the sea in the proviso in Paragraph 1 of this article.
Article 22
Those who use marine facilities or engage in maritime projects that cause serious marine pollution or the concern of serious pollution shall promptly adopt measures to prevent, eliminate or mitigate pollution and shall promptly notify the competent authorities and industry competent authorities.
The competent authority may order the marine polluter in the foregoing paragraph to adopt necessary response measures, and when necessary, the competent authority may directly adopt response measures and performing clean-up and disposal work. The marine polluter at issue shall bear responsibility for all expenses generated by response measures, clean-up and disposal.