8.—(1) A person must not exploit a spring for the purpose of marketing the water from it as natural mineral water unless—
(a)the water extracted from that spring is natural mineral water;
(b)the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has authorised water to be abstracted from that spring; and
(c)the requirements of Schedule 4 are met.
(2) Where it is found during exploitation that natural mineral water is polluted and that the bottling of the water would contravene paragraphs 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 4, a person must not exploit the spring from which the water is extracted until the cause of the pollution is eradicated and the bottling of the water would comply with those paragraphs.