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SCHEDULE 2Drinking Water Quality Regulator: further provision as to powers of entry etc.

Commercially confidential information

7(1)Any person who enters any premises in the exercise of any power conferred by the relevant provisions and who makes use of or discloses any information obtained by that person on those premises with regard to any manufacturing process or trade secret is guilty of an offence.

(2)A person guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (1) is liable—

(a)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum,

(b)on conviction on indictment, to a fine.