SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Regulation of the water environment

Part 2Supplementary provision

Water regulations trading schemes: penalties

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1

The regulations may, if they are water regulations, authorise the inclusion in a trading scheme of—

a

provision for penalties in respect of contraventions of provisions of the scheme;

b

provision for the amount of any penalty under the scheme to be such as may be set out in, or calculated in accordance with—

i

the scheme, or

ii

the regulations (including regulations made after the scheme starts to operate).

2

In this paragraph “trading scheme” means a scheme of the kind mentioned in paragraph 3(3).