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The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000
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- 2000 No. 323
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- Regulation 21
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Power of SEPA to prevent or remedy pollution
21.—(1) If SEPA is of the opinion, as respects the operation of an installation or mobile plant authorised under these Regulations, that the operation of the installation or mobile plant, or the operation of it in a particular manner, involves an imminent risk of serious pollution, it may arrange for steps to be taken to remove that risk.
(2) Where the commission of an offence under regulation 30(1)(a), (b) or (d) causes any pollution, SEPA may arrange for steps to be taken towards remedying the effects of pollution.
(3) Where SEPA intends to arrange for steps to be taken under paragraph (2), it shall, at least seven days before the steps are taken, notify the operator of the steps that are to be taken.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), where SEPA arranges for steps to be taken under this regulation, it may recover the cost of taking those steps from the operator of the installation concerned.
(5) No costs shall be recoverable under paragraph (4) where SEPA arranges for steps to taken under paragraph (1) if the operator shows that there was no imminent risk of serious pollution requiring any such steps to be taken and no other costs shall be recoverable which the operator shows to have been unnecessarily incurred by SEPA.
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