Section 23: Offences.

Environmental Protection Act 1990 · 1990 c. 43View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Integrated Pollution Control and Air Pollution Control by Local Authorities

It is an offence for a person—

to contravene section 6(1) above;
to fail to give the notice required by section 9(2) above;
to fail to comply with or contravene any requirement or prohibition imposed by an enforcement notice or a prohibition notice;
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to fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any requirement imposed by a notice under section 19(2) above;
to make a statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly to make a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular, where the statement is made—
in purported compliance with a requirement to furnish any information imposed by or under any provision of this Part; or
for the purpose of obtaining the grant of an authorisation to himself or any other person or the variation of an authorisation;
intentionally to make a false entry in any record required to be kept under section 7 above;
with intent to deceive, to forge or use a document issued or authorised to be issued under section 7 above or required for any purpose thereunder or to make or have in his possession a document so closely resembling any such document as to be likely to deceive;
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to fail to comply with an order made by a court under section 26 below.

A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (a), (c) or (l) of subsection (1) above shall be liable:

on summary conviction, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both;
on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (b), (g), (h), (i) or (j) of subsection (1) above shall be liable—

on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;
on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

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