Notice to abstain from pollution practices

(1) Where it appears to the Department that any waters have been or are likely to be polluted, the Department may serve on the owner or occupier of the land where the act or omission took place, or on the pollutant a notice requiring him to stop or prevent the acts or omissions causing the pollution. (2) Any person who refuses or fails to comply with a notice served under this Regulation commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment, and where the offence is a continuing offence, he shall be liable to a further fine not exceeding one thousand dollars for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.