Water Resources Act 1963

114 Power to require information

(1) A river authority may give directions requiring any person who—

(a) is abstracting water from a source of supply in their area, or

(b) is discharging effluents into any such source of supply, or into any waters falling within paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of the last preceding section,

to give such information to the river authority as to the abstraction or discharge, at such times and in such form, as may be specified in the directions.

(2) In the case of a person who has applied to a river authority for any consent required by the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961, the information required by directions under the preceding subsection may include any particulars prescribed by regulations under section 3 (1) of that Act.

(3) Subject to the next following subsection, any person to whom any directions are given under this section and who considers that they are unreasonable or unduly onerous may make representations to the Minister with respect to them; and the Minister, if he thinks fit, may direct the river authority to revoke or modify them.

(4) The last preceding subsection shall not apply to any directions in so far as—

(a) they require the giving of any such particulars as are mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, or

(b) they require the occupier of any land to give any prescribed particulars as to the quantity or quality of water abstracted by him or on his behalf from any source of supply in the river authority area.

(5) Any person who fails to comply with any directions given by a river authority under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.