Part VII INFORMATION PROVISIONS

Registers, maps etc.

197 Register for the purposes of works discharges.

1

Every water undertaker shall keep a register of persons and premises for the purposes of section 166 above.

2

A water undertaker shall enter the name and address of a person in that register in respect of any premises which abut on any watercourse if that person has requested to be so registered and is either—

a

the owner or occupier of those premises; or

b

an officer of an association of owners or occupiers of premises which abut on that watercourse and include those premises.

3

If any water undertaker contravenes, without reasonable excuse, any of the requirements of this section, it shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.