Information
8.—(1) After Article 26 of the principal Order there shall be inserted—
“Information relating to new discharges of trade effluents
26A.—(1) The Department may require the owner or occupier of premises from which a new discharge is being made to furnish in writing such information to the Department concerning the discharge as an applicant for consent to such a discharge is required to furnish in a trade effluent notice under Article 23(2).
(2) Any person who, having been required by the Department to furnish information to it under this Article, fails to furnish that information, or knowingly makes any misstatement in respect thereof, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.”.
(2) In Article 30 of the principal Order (information relating to existing discharges of trade effluents)—
(a)for the words from the beginning to “furnish” in the first place where it occurs there shall be substituted—
“(1) The Department may require the owner or occupier of premises from which an existing discharge is being made to furnish in writing”;
(b)at the end there shall be inserted—
“(2) Any person who, having been required by the Department to furnish information to it under this Article, fails to furnish that information, or knowingly makes any misstatement in respect thereof, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.”.
(3) In Article 47(1) (plans and information)—
(a)at the beginning there shall be inserted “The Department may require”;
(b)after “pipe” there shall be inserted “used or intended to be used”;
(c)the words “of the Ministry shall, when requested in writing so to do by the Ministry” shall cease to have effect;
(d)in sub-paragraph (a), at the beginning, there shall be inserted “to”;
(e)in sub-paragraph (b) for “furnish” there shall be substituted “to furnish in writing”.