Section 78: Cable burning.

Control of Pollution Act 1974 · 1974 c. 40View on legislation.gov.uk

*Part IV: *

A person who burns insulation from a cable with a view to recovering metal from the cable shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the burning is part of a process subject to Part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 or the place at which he does so is a work registered in pursuance of section 9 of the Alkali Act.

A person who contravenes the provisions of the preceding subsection shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale;

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