Water Industry Act 1991

[F1 5 (1) Regulations under this Schedule may provide for penalties to be imposed where— U.K.

(a) a person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement imposed in accordance with regulations under paragraph 4;

(b) having been required to produce a document in accordance with paragraph 4, a person wilfully alters, suppresses or destroys the document;

(c) having been required to produce a written statement in accordance with paragraph 4, a person makes without reasonable excuse a false statement in the written statement produced;

(d) having been required by appeal rules to verify information with a statement of truth, a person provides without reasonable excuse information that is false in a material particular.

(2) The regulations may provide for conduct falling within sub-paragraph (1)(a), (c) or (d) to be punished by the High Court as if the person had been guilty of contempt.

(3) The regulations may provide that, where a body corporate may be punished for contempt of court, the High Court has power to punish for contempt of court any director or other officer of the body (instead of or as well as the body).

(4) The regulations may provide for conduct falling within sub-paragraph (1)(b) to be an offence triable either summarily or on indictment.

(5) The regulations may provide for such an offence to be punishable—

(a) on summary conviction, by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;

(b) on conviction on indictment, by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or by a fine, or by both.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 16 inserted (1.4.2016) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), s. 94(3), Sch. 6; S.I. 2016/465, art. 2(l) (with Sch. 2) (as amended (22.3.2017) by S.I. 2017/462, art. 16)