Section 197: Register for the purposes of works discharges.

Water Industry Act 1991 · 1991 c. 56View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VII: INFORMATION PROVISIONS

Every water undertaker shall keep a register of persons and premises for the purposes of section 166 above.

A water undertaker shall enter the name and address of a person in that register in respect of any premises which abut on any watercourse if that person has requested to be so registered and is either—

the owner or occupier of those premises; or
an officer of an association of owners or occupiers of premises which abut on that watercourse and include those premises.

If any water undertaker contravenes, without reasonable excuse, any of the requirements of this section, it shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

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