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CAP. 358)

Water Pollution Control

[1980 Ed.

(c) shall be addressed to and served personally or by regis- tered post on the person who committed the offence.

(3) If a person fails to comply with a notice under sub- section (1) served on him, the Authority may, without further notice but subject to subsection (4), carry out or cause to be carried out the work, or the remaining work, specified in the notice and recover from that person the cost of so doing as a civil debt due to the Crown.

(4) The Authority shall not exercise the power in sub- section (3)—

(a) until after the expiry of the time allowed under section 29(3) for appeal against a requirement under subsection (1); and

(b) where an appeal is brought, until it is determined, with-

drawn or abandoned.

(5) A copy of a document which purports to be a notice signed by the Authority for the purposes of subsection (1) shall be admitted in evidence in proceedings under subsection (3) on its production without further proof and-

(a) until the contrary is proved, the court before the docu- ment is produced shall presume that the signature to the document is genuine and the person signing it was the Authority at the time when he signed it; and

(b) such document shall be sufficient evidence of the opinion of the Authority and of all other matters contained therein.

PART IV

671905.9.

Notices of existing

discharges and deposits.

€71905.10

LICENSING

EXEMPTION OF EXISTING DISCHARGES AND DEPOSITS

14. (1) After a day appointed by order under subsection (2) of section 7 and before a day appointed by order under subsec- tion (3) of that section a person may give-notice to the Authority- of an existing discharge or deposit to which those orders apply.

(2) A-notice-under subsection (1) shall be given in such manner and form and contain such information and estimates as may be prescribed.

an application

(3) Any person who in any notice under subsection (1)( makes any statement or gives any estimate which he knows to r be incorrect in a material particular or who recklessly makes any statement or gives any estimate which is incorrect in a material particular or knowingly omits any material particular therefrom commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.

$10,000