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The Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015

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41.—(1) A person who breaches a provision of these Regulations commits an offence.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable—

(a)on summary conviction, to a fine, or

(b)on conviction on indictment, to a fine.

(3) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under this regulation, and the offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of—

(a)a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of a body corporate, or

(b)a person who was purporting to act in such a capacity,

that person, as well as the body corporate, is guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

(4) In paragraph (3), “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body.

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