[F141 Registers. S
(1)It shall be the duty of river purification authorities to maintain in accordance with regulations, registers containing prescribed particulars of—
(a)any notices of water quality objectives or other notices served under section 30C above;
(b)application for consents—
(i)made to the authorities in pursuance of this Part of this Act;
(ii)sent to the Secretary of State in pursuance of section 34 of this Act (as modified by regulations made under section 55 of this Act);
(c)consents given in pursuance of any provision of this Part of this Act (except section 40(4)) and the conditions to which the consents are subject;
(d)samples—
(i)of effluent taken by the authorities in pursuance of section 19 of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act M11951;
(ii)of effluent taken by islands councils from discharges made by them in their own areas for the purposes of their functions relating to the pollution of controlled waters; and
(iii)of water taken by the authorities;
and information produced by analyses of the samples and the steps taken in consequence of the information;
(e)certificates issued in pursuance of the following section.
(2)It shall be the duty of a river purification authority—
(a)to secure that registers maintained by the authority in pursuance of the preceding subsection are, after such date as is prescribed with respect to the registers, open to inspection by the public free of charge at all reasonable hours; and
(b)to afford members of the public reasonable facilities for obtaining from the authority, on payment of reasonable charges, copies of entries in the register.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 31, 32 and 34-42 repealed (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)-(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58, Sch. 27 Pt. I and for ss. 31-32 and ss. 34-42 there is substituted (S.) ss. 30A-32 and 34-42 by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 168, 189(4)-?(10), 190, 193(1), 194(4), Sch. 23 para. 4, Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 41 extended by S.I. 1985/708, reg. 4(1), Sch. 1
C2S. 41 modified by S.I. 1985/813, reg. 3(2)
C3S. 41 extended (2.12.1991) by S.I. 1991/2539, reg. 3, Sch.
S. 41 amended (27.8.1993) by 1993 c. 12, ss. 40, 51(3), Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 16 (with ss. 42, 46)
Marginal Citations