The Private Water Supplies (England) Regulations 2016

Penalties

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20.—(1) A person who fails to comply with a notice served under regulation 18 is liable—

(a)on summary conviction to a fine or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 months, or both;

(b)on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or both.

(2) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of—

(a)any director, manager, secretary or other similar person of the body corporate, or

(b)any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,

that person is guilty of the offence as well as the body corporate.

(3) In paragraph (2), “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.