Environmental Quality (Halon Management) Regulations 1999Environmental Quality (Halon Management) Regulations 1999PU(A) 452/1999IN exercise of the powersconferred by section 51 of the Environmental Quality Act 1974 [Act 127], theMinister, after consultation with the Environmental Quality Council, makes thefollowing regulations: 1. Citationand commencement.Theseregulations may be cited as the Environmental Quality (Halon Management)Regulations 1999 and comes into operation on 1January 2000. 2. Interpretation.Inthese Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-"approvalcriteria" means the criteria on the ability of a substance to extinguishfire, or its ozone depleting potential or global warming potential and anyother physical and chemical characteristics important for its proposed applications;"destruction"means a process which, when applied to Halon, results in the permanenttransformation, or decomposition of all or a significant portion of Halon; "Dir...