Part VIIIINFORMATION PROVISIONS
Registers etc. to be kept by the F16appropriate agency
C1C2C3190 Pollution control register.
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It shall be the duty of the F17appropriate agency to maintain, in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State, registers containing prescribed particulars of F1or relating to—
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any notices of water quality objectives or other notices served under section 83 above;
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the following, that is to say—
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samples of water or effluent taken by the F17appropriate agency for the purposes of any of the water pollution provisions of this Act;
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information produced by analyses of those samples;
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the steps taken in consequence of any such information as is mentioned in any of sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) above;
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directions given by the Secretary of State in relation to the F17appropriate agency's functions under the water pollution provisions of this Act;
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works notices under section 161A above;
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appeals under section 161C above;
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convictions for offences under section 161D above;
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such other matters relating to the quality of water or the pollution of water as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State.
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Where information of any description is excluded from any register by virtue of section 191B below, a statement shall be entered in the register indicating the existence of information of that description.
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It shall be the duty of the F17appropriate agency—
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to secure that the contents of registers maintained by the F17appropriate agency under this section are available, at all reasonable times, for inspection by the public free of charge; and
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to afford members of the public reasonable facilities for obtaining from the F17appropriate agency, on payment of reasonable charges, copies of entries in any of the registers.
F5and, for the purposes of this subsection, places may be prescribed by the Secretary of State at which any such registers or facilities as are mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above are to be available or afforded to the public in pursuance of the paragraph in question.
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Section 101 above shall have effect in relation to any regulations under this section as it has effect in relation to any subordinate legislation under Part III of this Act.
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The Secretary of State may give to the F17appropriate agency directions requiring the removal from any register maintained by it under this section of any specified information which is not prescribed for inclusion under subsection (1) above or which, by virtue of section 191A or 191B below, ought to have been excluded from the register.
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Words in s. 189 cross-heading substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 299 (with Sch. 7)