Notice to supply information

(1) The Department may by notice in writing require the owner or operator of any sewage treatment plant, industrial waste treatment facility or any facility for the disposal of solid waste or any other facility for controlling pollution, to submit to the Department at such intervals as the Chief Environmental Officer may specify in the notice, information relating to all or any of the following– (a) the performance of the facility; (b) the quality of the effluent discharged; (c) the area affected by the discharge of effluents; (d) the steps being taken to abate or control and such owner or operator as aforesaid shall comply with the requirements of the notice. (2) Any person who refuses or fails to comply with the requirements of a notice under subregulation (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine Environmental Protection 61 not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.