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Obligation to give information to local authorities and sanitary authorities.
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23.—(1) A local authority may, for any purpose relating to its functions under this Act, by notice in writing require any person who is abstracting water from or discharging, or causing or permitting the discharge of, effluent or other matter to any waters to state in writing to the authority, within a specified time not less than 14 days after being so required, such particulars of the abstraction or discharge as may be specified in the notice.
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(2) A sanitary authority may, for any purpose relating to its functions under this Act, by notice in writing require any person making, causing or permitting a discharge to a sewer to state in writing to the authority, within a specified time not less than 14 days after being so required, such particulars of the discharge as may be specified in the notice.
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(3) Every person who is required under this section to state any matter or thing to a local authority or sanitary authority and either fails to do so within the time appointed under this section or, when so stating, makes a statement in writing which is false or to his knowledge misleading in a material respect, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100.
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