SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15 SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO DRAINAGE CHARGES

Returns with respect to land

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1

The F2appropriate agency may serve on any person appearing to it to be the occupier of any land a notice requiring him to furnish a return under sub-paragraph (2) below to the F2appropriate agency within twenty-eight days beginning with the date of service of the notice on him.

2

The return required of a person by a notice under sub-paragraph (1) above is a return, in writing and in such form as may be specified in the notice, containing such particulars as may reasonably be required for the purpose of enabling the F2appropriate agency to determine—

a

how much (if any) of the land occupied by that person is chargeable land; and

b

how much (if any) consists of commercial woodlands.

3

If any person on whom notice has been served under sub-paragraph (1) above—

a

fails without reasonable excuse to comply with the notice;

b

in a return made in pursuance of such a notice, makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular; or

c

in any such return recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular,

he shall be guilty of an offence

4

A person guilty of an offence under sub-paragraph (3) above shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale; and a person convicted by virtue of paragraph (a) of that sub-paragraph shall be liable to a further conviction by virtue of that paragraph if, after conviction, he continues without reasonable excuse F1to fail to comply with the notice in question.

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This paragraph shall be without prejudice to the provisions of Part VIII of this Act.