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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 22U.K. Minor and consequential amendments

The Environmental Protection Act 1990E+W+S

66(1)Section 35 of that Act (waste management licences: general) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.E+W+S

(2)After subsection (7) there shall be inserted—

(7A)In any case where—

(a)an entry is required under this section to be made in any record as to the observance of any condition of a licence, and

(b)the entry has not been made,

that fact shall be admissible as evidence that that condition has not been observed.

(7B)Any person who—

(a)intentionally makes a false entry in any record required to be kept under any condition of a licence, or

(b)with intent to deceive, forges or uses a licence or makes or has in his possession a document so closely resembling a licence as to be likely to deceive,

shall be guilty of an offence.

(7C)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (7B) above shall be liable—

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

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