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6.—(1) Discharges from urban waste water treatment plants described in paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 5, or from any such plant which provides treatment in accordance with paragraph (5) of that regulation, (including any such plants which are provided other than by sewerage undertakers) shall satisfy the relevant requirements of Part I of Schedule 3.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Authority, in exercising its functions under Chapter II of Part III of the Water Resources Act 1991 M1 (pollution offences), to secure—
(a)with respect to any such discharge as is described in paragraph (1) above, that the requirements of that paragraph are satisfied;
(b)with respect to any discharge described in paragraph (5) or (7) of regulation 5 (including any such discharge from an urban waste water treatment plant which is provided other than by a sewerage undertaker), that the requirements of the said paragraph (5) or, as the case may be, the said paragraph (7) are satisfied;
(c)with respect to any discharge from a collecting system described in regulation 4 or an urban waste water treatment plant described in regulation 5, the limitation of pollution of receiving waters due to storm water overflows;
(d)with respect to the discharge of sludge—
(i)that the discharge of sludge to surface waters is phased out by 31st December 1998; and
(ii)that the total amount of toxic, persistent or bioaccumulable materials in the sludge which may be discharged to surface waters pursuant to consents under the said Chapter II is controlled by such consents and progressively reduced during the period ending on that date.
(3) The Authority shall at regular intervals review and, if necessary for the purpose of complying with this regulation, modify or revoke consents granted under the said Chapter II.
(4) Nothing in paragraph 7 of Schedule 10 to the Water Resources Act 1991 shall restrict the power of the Authority to modify or revoke a consent in pursuance of the duty imposed by this regulation.
(5) All lakes and ponds shall be treated as controlled waters for the purposes of section 85 of that Act (offences of polluting controlled waters) insofar as that section relates to the discharge of waste water from urban waste water treatment plants.
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