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WATER AND SEWERAGE SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1973 - SECT 20

20.(1) Subject to this Order, the occupier of any trade premises may discharge
into the sewers or sewage treatment works of the Ministry any trade effluent
from those premises.

(2) Any occupier of trade premises who discharges trade effluent into the
sewers or sewage treatment works of the Ministry without the consent of the
Ministry, where such consent is required, or contrary to any direction given
or condition imposed by virtue of this Part, shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (2) shall be liable

(a)on conviction on indictment, to a fine;

(b)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding #400;

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

(ii)on summary conviction, to the greater of a fine not exceeding #400 or a
fine not exceeding #40 for each day on which the offence was so repeated or
continued.

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