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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Alteration of penalties

[1968 c. 47.] The Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968

21In section 12(8) of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (under which a person is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £25 if he connects a drain or sewer otherwise than in accordance with that section) for the word " £25 " there shall be substituted the word " £200 "

22In section 14(6) of that Act (under which a person is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £25 if he constructs a drain, sewer or sewage treatment works otherwise than in accordance with a direction under that section by a local authority) for the word " £25 " there shall be substituted the word " £200 ".

23In section 24(2) of that Act (under which an occupier of trade premises who discharges trade effluent into sewers etc. without the consent of, or contrary to a direction given by or condition imposed by, the local authority is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50 and a further fine not exceeding £20 for each day on which the offence continues after conviction) for the words " £50 " and " £20 " there shall be substituted the words " £200 " and " £50 " respectively.

24In section 45(2) of that Act (under which a person who fails to give specified information to a local authority is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £20) for the word " £20 " there shall be substituted the word " £50 ".

25In section 46 of that Act (which provides that certain matters are not to be passed into public sewers), in subsection (2) (under which a contravention of that section is punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding £20 and a further fine not exceeding £10 for each day on which the offence continues after conviction)—

(a)for the words "" £20 " and " £10 " there shall be substituted the words " £400 " and " £50 " respectively ; and

(b)there shall be added at the end the words " and on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both a fine and such imprisonment ".