Water Pollution (Jersey) Law 2000

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Jersey Law 14/2000

WATER POLLUTION (JERSEY) LAW 2000

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ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES

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PART I
Introductory
1.	Interpretation
2.	Meaning of “controlled waters”
3.	Extension of controlled waters
4.	Meaning of “pollution”
PART 2
Administration
5.	General objectives of Committee
6.	Operating considerations
7.	Gathering of information
8.	Dissemination of information
9.	Consultation with other persons
10.	Public notice of proposals
11.	Provision of services
PART 3
Water quality
12.	Water Quality Orders
13.	Compliance with water quality objectives
14.	Water Catchment Management Areas
15.	Water Catchment Management Orders
16.	Approved codes of practice
PART 4
Pollution offences
17.	Pollution offences
18.	Statutory defences
PART 5
Authorized discharges
19.	High risk substances
20.	Applications in respect of discharge permits
21.	Discharge permits
22.	Conditions of discharge permits
23.	Variation and revocation of discharge permits
24.	Suspension of discharge permits
25.	Transfer of discharge permits
26.	Discharge certificates
27.	Notice of decisions
28.	Charges for discharge permits
PART 6
Enforcement
29.	Appointment of designated officers
30.	Proof of authority
31.	Persons who may accompany designated officers
32.	General powers of entry and investigation
33.	Co-operation by owners and others
34.	Access to documents and records relating to water quality
35.	Provision of information about potential pollution
36.	Control of potential pollution
37.	Remedial action by polluters
38.	Manner of exercising powers
39.	Remedial action by Committee
40.	Injunctions
PART 7
General
41.	Application for protection of trade secret
42.	Information that is protected
43.	Information that is not protected
44.	Appeals
45.	Compensation
46.	Interference with apparatus
47.	False information
48.	Criminal liability
49.	Evidence
50.	Limitation of liability of Committee
51.	Service of documents
52.	Subordinate legislation
53.	Relationship to other enactments
54.	Implementation of international obligations
55.	Application to Crown
56.	Repeals, amendments and transitional provisions
57.	Citation and commencement
SCHEDULES –
SCHEDULE 1 – Information that need not be disclosed
SCHEDULE 2 – High risk substances
SCHEDULE 3 – Enactments repealed
SCHEDULE 4 – Consequential amendments
SCHEDULE 5 – Transitional provisions

WATER POLLUTION (JERSEY) LAW 2000

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A LAW to provide for the control of pollution in Island waters, and the implementing of provisions of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic concluded in Paris on the twenty-second day of September 1992; the monitoring and the classification of waters; the setting of quality objectives for classified waters; administrative, regulatory, preventive and remedial measures; and related purposes; sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

17th day of MAY 2000

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(Registered on the 26th day of May 2000)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 7th day of March 2000

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

PART I

INTRODUCTORY

ARTICLE 1

Interpretation

(1) In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires –

“approved” means approved in writing by the Committee;

“approved code of practice” means a code of practice that is approved by the Committee by an Order made under Article 16;

“best environmental practice” has the same meaning as it has in the Convention;

“best techniques” has the same meaning as it has in the Convention;

“business” includes any trade, industrial or commercial activity or profession;

“certificate of confidentiality” means a certificate of confidentiality granted under Article 41;

“clean technology” has the same meaning as it has in the Convention;

“Committee” means the Public Services Committee;

“Company” means the Jersey New Waterworks Company Limited, as defined in Article 1(1) of the Water (Jersey) Law 1972;1

“conform to”, when referring to an approved code of practice –

(a) in the case of an act, means to do that act in accordance with the code; and

(b) in the case of an omission, means to make that omission in accordance with the code;

“contravene”, when used in respect of a person who must comply with a requirement in or under this Law, includes to fail to comply;

“Convention” means the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic concluded in Paris on the twenty-second day of September 1992;

“Court” means the Royal Court;

“designated officer” means a person appointed under Article 29 as a designated officer;

“discharge certificate” means a discharge certificate in writing that is issued by the Committee under Article 26 and is in effect;

“discharge permit” means a discharge permit in writing that is granted by the Committee under Article 21 and is in effect;

“energy” has the same meaning as it has in the Convention;

“hovercraft” means a vehicle that is designed to be supported, when in motion, wholly or partly by air expelled from the vehicle to form a cushion of which the boundaries include the ground, water or other surface beneath the vehicle;

“land” –

(a) includes any house, building or premises; and

(b) also includes land under water;

“micro-organism” includes any microscopic, biological entity that is capable of replication;

“monitor”, when referring to controlled waters, includes to measure from time to time –

(a) the quality of controlled waters and their sediments and biota;

(b) activities, and additions to and inputs into controlled waters, that affect or may affect the quality of controlled waters; and

“persistency” has the same meaning as it has in the Convention;

“person” –

(a) includes a Committee of the States; and

(b) also includes an unincorporated body or unincorporated association of persons;

“prescribed” means prescribed by an Order made under this Law;

“public sewer” –

(a) means an “égout public” as defined in Article 3 of the “Loi (1937) sur les égouts”;2 and

(b) also means any works that are vested in or maintained by the Committee in its capacity as the sewerage undertaker for the Island, and relate to the reception, handling, conveying, treatment or disposal of sewage;

“records” includes computer records and records kept otherwise than in documents;

“representation” includes an objection;

“slimicides” has the same meaning as it has in the Convention;

“stream” includes any brook, canal, culvert, ditch, lavoir, sluice or spring;

“substance” –

(a) includes any matter whatever (whether it is in solid or liquid form, or is in the form of gas or vapour, or is radioactive matter or is natural or artificial); and

(b) also includes any micro-organism;

“suspend”, when referring to a discharge permit or a discharge certificate, means to suspend its effect;

“transboundary significance” has the same meaning as it has in the Convention;

“vary”, when referring to a discharge permit or discharge certificate, includes to vary any condition of the permit or certificate;

“Water Catchment Management Area” means any land that is designated under Article 14 as a Water Catchment Management Area;

“Water Catchment Management Order” means an Order to which Article 15 refers;

“Water Quality Order” means an Order to which Article 12 refers.

(2) In this Law, references to the Committee in its capacity as the sewerage undertaker for the Island are references to it in that capacity by reason of Articles 1 and 4 of the “Loi (1937) sur les égouts”3

(3) A reference in this Law to a Part, Article or Schedule by number only and without further identification is a reference to a Part, Article or Schedule of that number in this Law.

(4) A reference in an Article or other division of this Law to a paragraph or sub-paragraph by number or letter only and without further identification is a reference to the paragraph or sub-paragraph of that number or letter in the Article or other division of this Law.

(5) Unless the context otherwise requires –

(a) a reference in this Law to an enactment is a reference to that enactment as amended from time to time and includes a reference to that enactment as extended or applied by or under another enactment, including another provision of this Law; and

(b) a reference in this Law to an enactment includes a reference to any Regulation, Order, Bye-law or Notice made or issued under that enactment.

ARTICLE 2

Meaning of “controlled waters”

(1) In this Law, unless otherwise provided, “controlled waters” means –

(a) the territorial sea adjacent to the Island;

(b) coastal waters, being waters that are within the area that extends landward, from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, as far as the limit of the highest tide;

(c) inland waters, being the waters of lakes, marshlands, ponds, reservoirs, streams, surface water sewers and wetlands (whether in any such case they are natural or artificial, or above or below the ground), and not being coastal waters; and

(d) ground waters, being waters that are below the surface of the land and are not inland waters.

(2) “Controlled waters” does not mean –

(a) lawful foul sewers;

(b) drains that drain into lawful foul sewers; or

(c) waters that are within mains or other pipes owned or used by the Jersey New Waterworks Company Limited, having been treated for the purposes of supply.

(3) “Controlled waters” does not mean any artificial inland waters in respect of which each of the following conditions is fulfilled, namely –

(a) that they are constructed so that water does not pass between them and controlled waters;

(b) that they are not owned by the Company; and

but this paragraph is subject to Article 3.

(4) This Law also applies to –

(a) the foreshore, being the land that lies between the limits of the highest and lowest tides; and

(b) the bottoms, beds and channels of controlled waters that are inland waters, whether or not they are for the time being dry,

as it applies to controlled waters.

ARTICLE 3

Extension of controlled waters

(1) The States may by Regulations declare that any artificial inland waters described in Article 2(3) shall be controlled waters for the purposes of this Law.

(2) The Regulations may provide that those waters shall be controlled waters –

(a) for the purposes of the whole of this Law; or

(b) for the purposes of such provisions of this Law as are specified in the Regulations.

ARTICLE 4

Meaning of “pollution”

In this Law, “pollution” includes the introduction directly or indirectly into controlled waters of any substance, or energy, where its introduction results or is likely to result in –

(a) a hazard to human health or water supplies;

(b) harm to any living resource or aquatic ecosystem;

(d) interference with any legitimate use of controlled waters,

and whether or not its introduction is or would be the only contributing factor to that hazard, harm, damage or interference.

PART 2

ADMINISTRATION

ARTICLE 5

General objectives of Committee

(1) In carrying out its functions under this Law, the Public Services Committee shall have as its general objectives the maintenance and improvement of the quality of water in and around the Island by the prevention, control, reduction and elimination of the pollution of controlled waters.

(2) In carrying out its functions under this Law, the Committee shall also seek to promote the conservation and enhancement of the natural beauty and amenity of controlled waters, their use for recreational purposes and the conservation of flora and fauna that are dependent on an aquatic environment.

ARTICLE 6

Operating considerations

(1) In carrying out its functions under this Law the Committee shall have regard, as far as is reasonably practicable, to the following considerations –

(a) the best techniques that are for the time being available and the best environmental practice that is for the time being recognized (including, where appropriate, clean technology);

(b) a precautionary principle in respect of pollution, by which if there are reasonable grounds for concern that the introduction of anything into controlled waters may cause pollution, the Committee takes preventive measures in anticipation of the risk, whether or not there is conclusive evidence of a causal relationship between such an introduction and its effects; and

(c) a cost principle in respect of pollution, by which the costs of preventing, controlling, reducing and eliminating pollution are borne by the persons who cause or knowingly permit it.

(2) In carrying out its functions under this Law, the Committee shall also have regard to the obligations imposed on the Company by the Water (Jersey) Law 19724 to supply wholesome water for human consumption and use.

ARTICLE 7

Gathering of information

For the purposes of carrying out its functions under this Law, the Committee shall –

(a) monitor controlled waters, and the extent to which this Law is being complied with; and

(b) undertake continuing scientific and technical research and have regard to the latest developments in technology.

ARTICLE 8

Dissemination of information

(1) The Committee shall publish reports of its activities under this Law.

(2) The Committee shall also make available the information in its possession that is relevant to the following matters under this Law –

(a) reports published under paragraph (1);

(b) representations made to the Committee under paragraph (5) or paragraph (7) of Article 10;

(d) Water Catchment Management Areas and Water Catchment Management Orders;

(e) approved codes of practice;

(f) applications for and the grant, variation, transfer, suspension and revocation of discharge permits;

(g) information obtained by the Committee in consequence of the requirements of conditions of permits;

(h) proposals for and the issue, variation, suspension and revocation of discharge certificates;

(i) the results of analyses of samples taken by the Committee;

(j) notices served by the Committee in the exercise of its powers under any of Articles 34, 35, 36 and 37;

(k) the results of civil and criminal proceedings instituted under this Law;

(l) in respect of certificates of confidentiality, the information to which Article 43 refers; and

(m) any other matters relating to the state of controlled waters or activities, or measures, that affect or are likely to affect controlled waters or are undertaken under this Law,

but this paragraph is subject to paragraph (6).

(3) The information shall be available for inspection by any person during reasonable office hours, as soon as possible after it is requested and in any event within 28 days.

(4) The Committee shall also provide facilities for copying the information.

(5) The Committee may by Order prescribe reasonable charges for providing information and facilities for copying under this Article.

(6) The Committee may refuse to make available under this Article any information specified in Schedule 1.

(7) Where the Committee refuses any request for information under this Article, it shall give the applicant a statement in writing of its reasons.

(8) This Article is subject to Article 42.

ARTICLE 9

Consultation with other persons

(1) Before the Committee proceeds on any proposal to make a Water Quality Order –

(a) it shall consult the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee, the Health and Social Services Committee, the Planning and Environment Committee and the Company; and

(b) it shall also consult such other Committees of the States and other persons as it considers appropriate.

(2) Before the Committee proceeds on any proposal to make a Water Catchment Management Order, to approve a code of practice under Article 16 or to prescribe charges under Article 28 –

(a) it shall consult the other Committees named in paragraph (1)(a) of this Article; and

(b) it shall also consult such other Committees of the States and other persons as it considers appropriate.

ARTICLE 10

Public notice of proposals

(1) Before the Committee proceeds on any of the following proposals, namely –

(a) a proposal to make a Water Quality Order;

(b) an application for the grant or variation of a discharge permit;

(d) a proposal by the Committee for the issue or variation of a discharge certificate,

it shall comply with the requirements of this Article.

(2) The Committee shall publish a notice in the Jersey Gazette –

(a) stating that a copy of the proposal will be available for inspection free of charge at a place specified in the notice;

(b) specifying the period for which it will be available for inspection (being a period of not less than 21 days beginning after the notice is published in the Jersey Gazette);

(d) explaining that anyone may make representations in writing to the Committee in respect of the proposal at any time before the expiry of the seven days following the period for inspection,

and it shall make a copy of the proposal available accordingly for inspection.

(3) In the case of –

(a) an application for the variation of a discharge permit; or

(b) a proposal by the Committee of its own motion to vary a permit,

where the Committee is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the introduction to which the proposal relates does not have and is not likely to have any appreciable adverse effect on the aquatic environment, the Committee need not comply with paragraph (2).

(4) In the case of an application for the grant or variation of a discharge permit, or of a proposal by the Committee of its own motion to vary a permit or to issue or vary a discharge certificate –

(a) the Committee shall send copies of the proposal to the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee, the Health and Social Services Committee and the Planning and Environment Committee; and

(b) it shall also send copies to such other Committees of the States and other persons as it considers appropriate.

(5) Any person who wishes to make representations in respect of the proposal may do so by delivering them in writing to the Committee –

(a) at any time before the expiry of the seven days following the period for inspection; or

(b) within 21 days after receiving under paragraph (4) a copy of the proposal,

whichever is the later date.

(6) If a person who delivers such representations wishes to have the right –

(a) under Article 26, to apply to the Court to review a decision made by the Committee in respect of a discharge certificate; or

(b) under Article 44, to be given notice of an appeal,

he shall also provide in writing, to the Committee, an address for service in the Island.

(7) In the case of an application for the grant or variation of a discharge permit, or of a proposal by the Committee of its own motion to vary a permit –

(a) the Committee shall serve on the applicant or holder copies of all representations made by other persons under paragraph (5) in respect of the proposal; and

(b) he may deliver to the Committee representations in writing in reply, within 14 days after being served.

(8) The Committee –

(a) shall not proceed to determine the proposal until the time limits for making representations under this Law have elapsed; and

(b) in determining the proposal, shall consider all representations made under this Law in respect of the proposal.

(9) In this Article, “proposal” includes –

(a) the information and any representations supporting the proposal; and

(b) in the case of a proposal by the Committee of its own motion to vary a discharge permit, all written representations made by the holder of the permit under Article 23(2) in respect of the proposal.

ARTICLE 11

Provision of services

The Committee may by agreement with any other person –

(a) provide services, facilities and materials to that person for the purposes of this Law; and

(b) charge for doing so.

PART 3

WATER QUALITY

ARTICLE 12

Water Quality Orders

(1) For the purposes of carrying out its functions under this Law, the Committee may by Order (“a Water Quality Order”) –

(a) identify and classify controlled waters according to the uses to which they are being lawfully put or may in future be lawfully put and their amenity;

(b) set objectives to be achieved in respect of their quality for such uses and amenity; and

(2) In setting objectives, the Committee may specify in a Water Quality Order –

(a) standards of quality to be achieved;

(b) methods and dates by which the objectives shall be achieved; and

(3) In exercising its powers under this Article, the Committee shall have regard (as far as they are relevant to the purposes of this Law) to the state of the controlled waters, including –

(a) the substances that are present in them and the concentrations of those substances; and

(b) substances that are absent from the waters.

(4) In this Article, “use” includes use for any agricultural purpose, bathing, boating, fishing for pleasure, fishing for profit, any industrial purpose, any other recreational purpose and the supply of water.

ARTICLE 13

Compliance with water quality objectives

While a Water Quality Order remains in force in respect of any controlled waters –

(a) the Committee shall carry out its functions under Articles 14, 15, and 16, and Parts 5 and 6, in a manner that ensures as far as is reasonably practicable that the objectives set by the Order are achieved; and

(b) the Company shall, to the extent that it may do so under the Water (Jersey) Law 1972,5 carry out its functions under that Law in a manner that ensures as far as is reasonably practicable that those objectives are achieved.

ARTICLE 14

Water Catchment Management Areas

The States may by Regulations –

(a) designate any land described in the Regulations as a Water Catchment Management Area for the purposes of this Law; and

(b) specify conditions, for the prevention, control, reduction or elimination of pollution in controlled waters or of the risk of pollution in controlled waters, that the Committee may impose by a Water Catchment Management Order in respect of such an Area or part of an Area.

ARTICLE 15

Water Catchment Management Orders

(1) The Committee may by Order (“a Water Catchment Management Order”) impose in respect of –

(a) a Water Catchment Management Area; or

(b) any part of the Area,

any conditions that the States have for the time being specified under Article 14 in respect of that Area or that part of the Area (as the case may be).

(2) However, the Committee may only make a Water Catchment Management Order –

(a) with the agreement of every person who has a proprietary interest in any land to which the Order is to apply; or

(b) after complying with paragraphs (3) and (4).

(3) Where the Committee proposes to make a Water Catchment Management Order without the agreement of a person who has a proprietary interest in any land to which the Order applies, it shall serve on him a notice in writing –

(a) informing him of the terms of the proposed Order; and

(b) explaining that he may within a specified period (being a period of not less than 21 days beginning after the date of service of the notice on him) make representations in writing to the Committee in respect of the proposal.

(4) In deciding whether or not to make the Water Catchment Management Order, the Committee shall consider all representations so made.

(5) Any person who intentionally and without reasonable excuse contravenes any condition imposed under paragraph (1) in respect of any land to which a Water Catchment Management Order applies shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

ARTICLE 16

Approved codes of practice

(1) The Committee may by Order approve any code of practice for the purposes of this Law.

(2) In exercising its powers under paragraph (1), the Committee shall have regard to the desirability of –

(a) the provision of practical guidance to persons engaged in activities (including, in particular, agricultural and related activities) that may affect the quality of controlled waters; and

(b) the promotion and encouragement of good practices by such persons for preventing, controlling, reducing or eliminating the pollution of controlled waters.

PART 4

POLLUTION OFFENCES

ARTICLE 17

Pollution offences

(1) Any person who causes or knowingly permits the pollution of any controlled waters shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

(2) Where –

(a) the Committee in its capacity as the sewerage undertaker for the Island receives anything into a public sewer;

(b) it passes subsequently from any public sewer into controlled waters; and

the Committee shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine.

(3) Any person who, being the holder of a discharge permit, contravenes any condition of the permit shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

(4) Where the Committee contravenes any condition of a discharge certificate, it shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine.

ARTICLE 18

Statutory defences

(1) Where a person is charged with an offence under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of Article 17, it shall be a defence to prove that in doing any act or making any omission that is a necessary ingredient of the offence he was acting in accordance with a discharge permit or discharge certificate.

(2) Where a person (other than the Committee) is charged with an offence under Article 17(1) by reason only of the introduction into a public sewer of anything that passes subsequently into controlled waters, it shall be a defence to prove that the Committee was bound (either unconditionally or subject to conditions that were observed) to receive it into the sewer.

(3) Where the Committee is charged with an offence under paragraph (2) or paragraph (4) of Article 17 by reason of the introduction of anything into controlled waters, it shall be a defence to prove –

(a) that the occurrence was attributable to the fact that its prior introduction into a public sewer was caused or permitted by a person who was not acting under the authority of the Committee; and

(b) that the Committee either was not bound to receive it into the sewer, or was only bound to do so on conditions that were not observed.

(4) Where a person is charged with an offence under Article 17(1), it shall be a defence to prove –

(a) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence;

(b) that he took all steps that were reasonably practicable for minimizing the extent of pollution of controlled waters; and

(c) that he gave full details of the occurrence to the Committee, or ensured that they were given to it, as soon as was reasonably practicable.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4) –

(a) the fact that a person conforms in a material way to an approved code of practice shall be admissible as evidence that he is conducting himself reasonably and with due diligence in that way; and

(b) the fact that a person fails in a material way to conform to an approved code of practice shall be admissible as evidence that he is not conducting himself reasonably and with due diligence in that way.

(6) Where a person is charged with an offence under any of paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Article 17 by reason of the introduction of anything into controlled waters, it shall be a defence to prove –

(a) that it was introduced in consequence of a decision to do so in an emergency that arose in circumstances beyond his control;

(b) that the decision was reasonable;

(c) that he took all steps that were reasonably practicable for minimizing the extent of pollution of controlled waters; and

(d) that he gave full details of the occurrence to the Committee, or ensured that they were given to it, as soon as was reasonably practicable.

PART 5

AUTHORIZED DISCHARGES

ARTICLE 19

High risk substances

(1) In deciding under this Part whether or not to grant, vary, transfer, suspend or revoke a discharge permit, or to issue, vary, suspend or revoke a discharge certificate, the Committee shall have particular regard in every relevant case to the risk of pollution by any substance of a kind described in Schedule 2.

(2) The Committee may by Order amend Schedule 2.

ARTICLE 20

Applications in respect of discharge permits

(1) Every application for the grant, variation, transfer or revocation of a discharge permit shall be in writing, with such information (including maps and diagrams) as may be prescribed or as the Committee may reasonably require in any case.

(2) An application for the transfer of a discharge permit shall include the written consent of the proposed transferee to his becoming the holder of the permit.

ARTICLE 21

Discharge permits

(1) If any person other than the Committee wishes to make an introduction into controlled waters that would otherwise be in contravention of Article 17(1), he shall first apply to the Committee for a discharge permit for that purpose.

(2) The Committee, on considering an application for a discharge permit, shall –

(a) grant the application, unconditionally or on such conditions as it may specify in its decision; or

(b) refuse the application.

(3) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the decision of the Committee.

ARTICLE 22

Conditions of discharge permits

Without prejudice to the generality of the conditions that the Committee may impose in granting a discharge permit, or in subsequently varying the permit, they may include all or any of the following matters –

(a) the place at which anything may be introduced into controlled waters;

(b) the design or construction of any outlet to be used for that purpose;

(c) the nature, origin, volume, rate, composition, properties, radioactivity, temperature or other qualities of anything to be introduced, or the frequency with which or the times during which it may be introduced;

(d) any treatment or process to be applied, by the holder of the permit or any other person, to minimize the pollution of controlled waters (including the provision or maintenance by the holder or any other person of approved treatment facilities for the purpose);

(e) the provision or maintenance of approved facilities (including boreholes, inspection chambers, manholes or observation wells), by the holder or any other person, for taking samples of the thing introduced or of controlled waters;

(f) the provision or maintenance of approved meters or other approved apparatus, by the holder or any other person, for measuring, assessing, determining or otherwise recording the nature, origin, volume, rate, composition, properties, radioactivity, temperature or other qualities of the thing introduced or of controlled waters;

(g) the keeping of records, the making of returns or the giving of other information, by the holder or any other person to the Committee, in respect of the introduction or its consequences; or

(h) time limits for complying with any conditions.

ARTICLE 23

Variation and revocation of discharge permits

(1) The Committee may, on the application of the holder of a discharge permit or of its own motion, vary or revoke the permit.

(2) Where the Committee proposes of its own motion to vary or revoke a discharge permit –

(a) it shall serve a notice in writing on the holder, specifying its proposal and informing him that he may make representations in writing to the Committee in respect of the proposal within 21 days after the notice is served on him; and

(b) in determining whether or not to proceed with its proposal, it shall consider all representations so made,

before proceeding on the proposal and complying (where necessary) with Article 10.

(3) A variation or revocation shall not take effect before it is served on the holder.

(4) A variation or revocation shall take effect –

(a) when it is served on the holder, if the Committee does not specify a later date; or

(b) where the Committee does specify a later date, on that date.

(5) However, where a variation imposes any restriction, obligation or requirement on the holder, the variation shall take effect on a date to be specified by the Committee, being not sooner than six months after it is served on the holder.

(6) The Committee need not comply with paragraph (5) if –

(a) there are exceptional circumstances; and

(b) it specifies those circumstances in its decision.

(7) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the decision of the Committee to vary or revoke a discharge permit.

ARTICLE 24

Suspension of discharge permits

(1) Where it appears to the Committee on reasonable grounds that it is necessary or expedient to do so because of an emergency –

(a) it may by notice in writing served on the holder of a discharge permit suspend the permit for any period, not exceeding 14 days, that is specified in the notice; and

(b) it may in the same manner extend the suspension of the permit for any period not exceeding 14 days.

(2) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the decision of the Committee.

ARTICLE 25

Transfer of discharge permits

(1) With the written approval of the Committee on an application made in accordance with Article 20, the holder of a discharge permit may transfer it to any other person.

(2) With effect from the date of approval, or from such later date as the Committee may specify in its approval –

(a) the transferor shall cease to be the holder of the discharge permit; and

(b) the transferee shall be the holder.

ARTICLE 26

Discharge certificates

(1) If the Committee wishes to make an introduction into controlled waters that would otherwise be in contravention of Article 17(1), it shall first issue a discharge certificate for that purpose.

(2) The Committee shall specify in the discharge certificate the conditions (if any) on which the introduction will be made.

(3) The Committee may vary a discharge certificate.

(4) A discharge certificate or its variation shall take effect from a date to be specified in the certificate by the Committee (being not sooner than 21 days after the Committee complies with Article 27 in respect of its decision).

(5) Where the Committee issues or varies a discharge certificate, any person who –

(a) has made representations under Article 10(5) in respect of its proposal to do so; and

(b) has provided an address for service in the Island,

may apply to the Court to review the decision.

(6) An application under paragraph (5) of this Article shall be made –

(a) within 21 days after the applicant is served with a written copy of the Committee’s decision (or within such further time as the Court may allow); and

(b) on notice to the Committee.

(7) Where the Committee issues or varies a discharge certificate, the Attorney General may apply to the Court at any time, on notice to the Committee, to review the decision.

(8) Rules of Court may provide for the manner in which applications for review under this Article shall be brought, heard and determined.

(9) Unless the Court so orders, the lodging of an application for review under this Article shall not operate to stay the effect of a decision pending the determination of the application.

(10) On hearing an application for review, the Court –

(a) may in its own judgment confirm, reverse or vary the decision of the Committee; and

(b) may make such order as to the costs of the review as it thinks fit.

(11) The Committee may at any time suspend or revoke a discharge certificate.

ARTICLE 27

Notice of decisions

(1) Within 14 days after the Committee –

(a) grants or refuses an application for a discharge permit, or an application to vary, transfer or revoke a permit;

(b) of its own motion varies, suspends or revokes a permit; or

it shall serve a written copy of its decision on each of the persons specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The persons to whom paragraph (1) refers are –

(a) the applicant or the holder of the discharge permit, as the case may be;

(b) the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee, the Health and Social Services Committee and the Planning and Environment Committee;

(c) every person who has made representations under Article 10(5) in respect of the matter, and has provided an address for service in the Island; and

(d) in the case of an application to transfer a permit, the transferee proposed in the application.

(3) This Article does not require the Committee, where it has suspended a discharge permit or extended the period of its suspension under Article 24, to give to the holder additional notice under this Article.

ARTICLE 28

Charges for discharge permits

(1) The Committee may prescribe –

(a) charges that shall be payable to the Committee by applicants, holders of discharge permits, and proposed transferees in respect of applications for the grant, variation, transfer and revocation of permits; and

(b) charges that shall be payable to the Committee periodically, by holders of permits, while their permits remain in force.

(2) In prescribing such charges, the Committee shall have regard to the amounts that are needed to meet its expenditure in carrying out its functions under this Law in respect of discharge permits (including, but without limiting the generality of this paragraph, the consideration of applications relating to permits, the granting of permits, the monitoring of discharges by holders of permits and the variation, suspension and revocation of permits).

(3) In prescribing charges in respect of discharge permits, the Committee may impose –

(a) different charges in respect of different parts of any periods during which permits remain in effect; and

(b) different charges according to the kinds or scale of activity, the kinds or amounts of any substances, the localities or circumstances and the number of different activities to which permits relate.

(4) Where any charge is prescribed, the Committee may refuse to do anything for which it is payable until it is paid (without prejudice to the right of the Committee to recover the money).

PART 6

ENFORCEMENT

ARTICLE 29

Appointment of designated officers

The Committee may in writing appoint as a designated officer for the purposes of this Law any person who is employed in the service of the States.

ARTICLE 30

Proof of authority

(1) A designated officer who is exercising his powers under this Law shall produce on request evidence of his authority to do so.

(2) A designated officer shall also state on request –

(a) his name; and

(b) the power that he proposes to exercise.

ARTICLE 31

Persons who may accompany designated officers

(1) In exercising his powers under this Law (including any powers conferred on him by a warrant granted under Article 32(4)), a designated officer may take with him –

(a) such other persons; and

(b) such vehicles, equipment and materials,

as are reasonably necessary or expedient for the purpose.

(2) A person whom a designated officer takes with him under paragraph (1) may perform any of the designated officer’s functions under this Law, but only under the latter’s supervision.

ARTICLE 32

General powers of entry and investigation

(1) A power conferred on a designated officer by paragraph (3) shall only be exercisable –

(a) where there are reasonable grounds for doing so;

(b) in a manner that is proportionate and otherwise reasonable; and

and, if it is to be exercised in respect of residential land, where the designated officer has given not less than 48 hours’ notice in writing to the owner or occupier.

(2) However, the requirements in paragraph (1) as to the time at which the power may be exercised and (in the case of residential land) as to the notice that must be given before it may be exercised do not apply in an emergency.

(3) A designated officer may do all or any of the following things in respect of any land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft, for the purposes of carrying this Law into effect –

(a) enter, board, inspect or search it;

(b) take or carry out on or in it any measurements, surveys, tests, investigations or photographs;

(d) install, maintain or operate on or in it any monitoring equipment or other apparatus;

(e) take or remove from it, for analysis, samples of any water, other substances, articles or other things found there; or

(f) take or remove any water, other substances, articles or other things found there, for the purposes of evidence in any civil or criminal proceedings under this Law.

(4) Where the Bailiff or a Jurat is satisfied on sworn information –

(a) that there are reasonable grounds for the exercise of any power under paragraph (3); and

(b) that in the circumstances of the case it is desirable to grant a warrant under this paragraph,

he may grant a warrant to a designated officer authorizing the officer at any time to enter or board any land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft specified in the warrant and there exercise any other powers under paragraph (3), and in doing so to use such reasonable force as may be necessary.

(5) A warrant shall continue in force until –

(a) the purposes for which the warrant is granted have been fulfilled; or

(b) the expiry of the period of one month following its grant,

whichever event occurs first.

(6) Where a designated officer enters any land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft in the exercise of his powers under this Article, and it is for the time being unoccupied or unmanned, he shall leave it secured as effectually as he found it.

(7) Where a designated officer has exercised any powers under this Article in respect of any land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft, he shall in writing inform the owner, occupier, driver, master, commander, or person in charge (as the case may be) as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 21 days –

(a) of the powers he has so exercised; and

(b) of everything he has taken or removed in the course of exercising those powers.

(8) Any person who without reasonable excuse –

(a) intentionally obstructs a designated officer who is exercising or seeking to exercise any power under this Article; or

(b) intentionally obstructs any person who is lawfully accompanying a designated officer, or performing any function under his supervision, under Article 31,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

ARTICLE 33

Co-operation by owners and others

(1) A designated officer who is exercising or seeking to exercise his powers under Article 32 on or in any land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft may require any person present who is or appears to the officer to be –

(a) the owner, occupier, driver, master, commander or person in charge; or

(b) some other responsible person,

to render such assistance as the designated officer may reasonably require of him in order that the designated officer can carry out more effectively the purposes for which he is exercising his powers.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not empower a designated officer to require a person to do anything that the Committee, under any of Articles 34, 35, 36 and 37, may require a person to do.

(3) Any person who intentionally and without reasonable excuse contravenes a requirement made of him under this Article shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

ARTICLE 34

Access to documents and records relating to water quality

(1) Where it appears to the Committee on reasonable grounds that a person has in his custody or control a document or record that is relevant to the purposes of this Law, the Committee may require him to allow the Committee to inspect and copy it.

(2) If it is reasonably necessary or expedient to do so, the Committee or the designated officer may take the document or record away temporarily, to inspect or copy it.

(3) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the making of a requirement by the Committee under this Article.

ARTICLE 35

Provision of information about potential pollution

(1) Where it appears to the Committee on reasonable grounds that a person has anything in his custody or control in circumstances in which it may pollute controlled waters, the Committee may require him to do all or any of the following things –

(a) to deliver to the Committee in writing details of the thing or the circumstances in which it is in his custody or control (including details as to its nature, origin, volume, rate, composition, properties, radioactivity, temperature or other qualities or, where appropriate, any methods of transfer used by the person in respect of it);

(b) to deliver to the Committee in writing such other information as it may reasonably require in order to determine the extent of that risk of pollution, or how best to prevent such pollution or to deal with the consequences of any pollution that does ensue; or

(2) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the making of a requirement by the Committee under this Article.

ARTICLE 36

Control of potential pollution

(a) to take reasonable precautions or undertake appropriate works or other measures (including monitoring); or

(b) to comply with reasonable conditions, while the thing is in his custody or control,

for the prevention of such pollution, or in anticipation of the control, reduction or elimination of such pollution.

(2) Where it appears to the Committee on reasonable grounds that a person has anything in his custody or control in circumstances in which it may pollute controlled waters, and –

(a) that it is not reasonably practicable by any other means to take adequate precautions against the risk of pollution, or to deal adequately with the consequences of any pollution that does ensue; and

(b) that the nature of the risk and the consequences of pollution are sufficiently serious to justify it in doing so,

the Committee may require him to dispose of the thing.

(3) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the making of a requirement by the Committee under this Article.

ARTICLE 37

Remedial action by polluters

(1) Where any person has caused or knowingly permitted any controlled waters to be polluted, the Committee may require him to do all or any of the following things –

(a) to eliminate, reduce or control the pollution;

(b) to remedy or mitigate its effects; or

(c) to restore the waters (or any flora or fauna that are dependent on the aquatic environment of those waters) to their state immediately before they were so polluted,

as far as it is reasonably practicable for him to do so.

(2) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the making of a requirement by the Committee under this Article.

ARTICLE 38

Manner of exercising powers

(1) A requirement by the Committee in the exercise of any power under any of Articles 34, 35, 36 and 37 shall be made by a notice in writing served on the person to whom it relates.

(2) The notice –

(a) shall in every case specify the document or record to be inspected and copied, the information to be delivered, the things to be done or the conditions to be complied with, as the case may be;

(b) may, in the case of a requirement under Article 36 or Article 37, specify the means by which the person is to comply with it; and

(c) shall in every case specify a period of time (being a reasonable period in the circumstances) within which the notice is to be complied with.

(3) No power conferred on the Committee by any of Articles 35, 36 and 37 shall be exercisable in respect of any act or omission by a person for which he has a defence under Article 18(1).

(4) Any person who intentionally and without reasonable excuse contravenes a notice served on him by the Committee in the exercise of a power under Article 34 shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale6

(5) Any person who intentionally and without reasonable excuse contravenes a notice served on him by the Committee in the exercise of a power under any of Articles 35, 36 and 37 shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

ARTICLE 39

Remedial action by Committee

(1) Where –

(a) a person on whom a notice is served in the exercise of a power under Article 36 or Article 37 contravenes the notice;

(b) it appears to the Committee after reasonable enquiry, in any case in which there are grounds for serving such a notice, that the person on whom it is to be served cannot be found; or

(c) it appears reasonably to the Committee, in any case in which there are grounds for serving such a notice, that the situation is one of urgency that warrants action under this Article,

the Committee may itself do all or any of the things that it has so required or could have so required the person to do.

(2) Where the Committee acts under paragraph (1), it may recover its reasonable expenses of doing so as a civil debt in any court of competent jurisdiction from any person on whom the notice was to be served.

ARTICLE 40

Injunctions

(1) The Committee or a designated officer may apply to the Court for an injunction to enforce compliance by any person with any requirement of this Law or made under this Law, or to restrain any person from contravening any provision of this Law.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not relieve a person from any criminal liability that he may incur by reason of any act or omission, or limit any other remedies of the Committee or a designated officer in respect of the person’s acts or omissions.

PART 7

GENERAL

ARTICLE 41

Application for protection of trade secret

(1) A person specified in paragraph (2) may apply to the Committee in accordance with this Article for a certificate of confidentiality in respect of any information described in that paragraph, on the ground that its disclosure will reveal a trade secret.

(2) The persons who may apply for certificates of confidentiality, and the information in respect of which they may so apply, are –

(a) an applicant for the grant, variation, transfer or revocation of a discharge permit, in respect of any information that he is required or wishes to give to the Committee in support of the application;

(b) any person, in respect of any information that he wishes to give under any of Articles 22, 34, 35, and 36;

(d) any person, in respect of any information relating to him, or to any business (including any research or experiment) carried on by him, that the Committee or a designated officer may obtain directly or indirectly in the course of the exercise of any power under Article 32 or Article 39.

(3) An application under this Article shall be made in writing.

(4) However, in a case to which any of sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of paragraph (2) refers, the application may in the first instance be made –

(a) orally; and

(b) either to the person who has required or obtained the information, or to the Committee directly,

but in that event, on the expiry of the period of 14 days following the day on which it was made, it shall cease to be an application made in accordance with this Article unless the applicant has put it in writing and delivered the written application to the Committee.

(5) Where the Committee is satisfied that the disclosure of the information will reveal a trade secret, it shall grant a certificate of confidentiality in respect of that information.

(6) Within 14 days after determining an application for a certificate of confidentiality, the Committee shall serve on the applicant a written copy of its decision.

(7) There shall be a right of appeal, in accordance with Article 44, against the decision of the Committee.

ARTICLE 42

Information that is protected

(1) While –

(a) an application for a certificate of confidentiality, having been made in accordance with Article 41, has not been determined by the Committee;

(b) any time allowed for appealing to the Court against the decision of the Committee in respect of the application has not expired, and the Court has not dismissed such an appeal;

(d) any appeal, having been lodged, has not been determined,

the information in respect of which the application for a certificate of confidentiality was made shall be confidential, unless it is information described in Article 43.

(2) Where a certificate of confidentiality is granted (whether by the Committee itself, or on appeal), the information in respect of which it is granted shall be confidential, unless it is information described in Article 43.

(3) Any person who knowingly or recklessly –

(a) discloses to any other person any information that is confidential by virtue of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2); or

(b) uses that information otherwise than for the purposes of this Law,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply to any disclosure –

(a) by the applicant for the certificate of confidentiality, or with his consent;

(b) to the Public Services Committee or to any other Committee of the States or to any public officer or to any other person specified in Article 31, for the purposes of this Law; or

(c) to the Court or to any party in any civil or criminal proceedings under this Law, in private and for the purposes of those proceedings.

ARTICLE 43

Information that is not protected

Article 42 does not apply to the following information –

(a) the name and address of the applicant for the certificate of confidentiality;

(b) the fact that he has applied for or been granted such a certificate or that an appeal to the Court, or any further appeal, is pending in respect of his application for it; and

(c) the site of the introduction or proposed introduction, into controlled waters, of anything to which the confidential information relates.

ARTICLE 44

Appeals

(1) The following persons shall have a right of appeal to the Court under this Law –

(a) an applicant for a discharge permit, against the refusal of the application by the Committee;

(b) an applicant for a permit, against any condition imposed by the Committee in granting the application;

(c) the holder of a permit, against the variation or revocation of the permit, or against the suspension of the permit under Article 24, or the extending of the suspension of the permit under that Article;

(d) a person of whom a requirement is made under any of Articles 34, 35, 36 and 37, against the making of the requirement; and

(e) an applicant for the grant of a certificate of confidentiality, against the refusal of the application in whole or in part.

(2) An appeal shall be brought within 21 days after the appellant is served with a written copy of the decision or the notice in writing of the requirement (as the case may be), or within such further time as the Court may allow.

(3) In any matter to which Article 10(5) applies, the Committee shall give notice in writing of the appeal to every person who has made representations under that paragraph and has provided an address for service in the Island, and that person may appear and be heard.

(4) Unless the Court so orders, the lodging of an appeal shall not operate to stay the effect of a decision or requirement pending the determination of the appeal.

(5) On hearing the appeal, the Court –

(a) may confirm, reverse or vary the decision or requirement against which the appeal is brought; and

(b) may make such order as to the costs of the appeal as it thinks fit.

ARTICLE 45

Compensation

(1) Where –

(a) any person who has a proprietary interest in any land that has been designated as or as part of a Water Catchment Management Area suffers any loss by way of reduction in the value of his interest or by way of the disturbance of business carried on by him on that land, in consequence of the imposition of any condition in respect of that land by a Water Catchment Management Order; or

(b) any person suffers any loss or damage in consequence of the exercise of any power under Article 32,

the Committee shall be liable to pay compensation to him for that loss or damage.

(2) Compensation shall not be payable under this Article –

(a) to the extent that the loss or damage is attributable to the claimant’s fault; or

(b) to the extent that compensation for the loss or damage is payable under any other enactment or rule of law,

but this Article does not limit any right to compensation under any other enactment or rule of law.

(3) For the purposes of a claim for compensation under this Article –

(a) conforming to an approved code of practice is not an act or omission involving fault; and

(b) where a person claims compensation in respect of any loss or damage, his failure in a material way to conform to an approved code of practice within a reasonable time after the code was approved under Article 16(1) shall be admissible as evidence that the loss or damage is attributable to his fault.

(4) Any dispute as to the entitlement of any person to compensation under this Article, or as to the amount of compensation –

(a) shall be referred to and determined by the arbitration of a single arbitrator appointed by agreement between the Committee and the claimant; or

(b) in default of such agreement, shall be referred to and determined by the Board of Arbitrators appointed in accordance with Articles 7 and 8 of the Compulsory Purchase of Land (Procedure) (Jersey) Law 19617

(5) In the determination of a dispute under paragraph (4) of this Article –

(a) Articles 9 and 16A of the Compulsory Purchase of Land (Procedure) (Jersey) Law 19618 shall apply; and

(b) in their application to this Law, the references in those provisions to the acquisition of land shall be read as references to the imposition of a condition in respect of land by a Water Catchment Management Order or, as the case may be, to the exercise of a power under Article 32 of this Law;

(6) In the determination of a dispute under paragraph (4) of this Article –

(a) Articles 10, 11, 12, 14 and 14A of that Law9 shall also apply; and

(b) in the application of those Articles (other than Article 11) to this Law, the references in them to the Board of Arbitrators shall be read as including a reference to a single arbitrator appointed by agreement under paragraph (4) of this Article.

(7) Interest, at the rate specified in Article 9A(4) of the Compulsory Purchase of Land (Procedure) (Jersey) 196110 and calculated in accordance with that paragraph from the date on which the loss or damage occurred until the date of payment, shall be added to the amount of any compensation assessed under this Article.

ARTICLE 46

Interference with apparatus

Any person who maliciously or dishonestly interferes or tampers with any meter or other apparatus installed on or in any land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft –

(a) by the Committee, for the purposes of this Law; or

(b) by any other person, in accordance with a requirement of or under this Law,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

ARTICLE 47

False information

Any person who –

(a) in support of an application under any of Articles 21, 23, 25 and 41 or under Schedule 5; or

(b) on being required under a condition of a discharge permit or discharge certificate, or under Article 35, to give or deliver any information to the Committee,

knowingly or recklessly makes a statement that is false or misleading in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine, or both.

ARTICLE 48

Criminal liability

(1) Any person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of an offence under this Law shall also be guilty of the offence and liable in the same manner as a principal offender to the penalty provided for that offence.

(2) Where an offence under this Law committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of –

(a) a person who is a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; or

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

the person shall also be guilty of the offence and liable in the same manner as the body corporate to the penalty provided for that offence.

(3) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (2) shall apply in relation to acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

ARTICLE 49

Evidence

(1) Where in any civil or criminal proceedings under this Law, evidence is adduced of information recorded by a meter or other apparatus that for the purposes of this Law is approved or used by the Committee, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that the meter or apparatus has at all material times recorded information accurately.

(2) In any civil or criminal proceedings under this Law, information that is provided by or obtained from any person under any condition of a discharge permit or discharge certificate shall be admissible in evidence against that person.

ARTICLE 50

Limitation of liability of Committee

Neither the Committee nor any of its members, officers, servants or agents shall incur any civil or criminal liability –

(a) in respect of the grant, variation, transfer, suspension or revocation of a discharge permit by the Committee; or

(b) in respect of the introduction of anything into controlled waters in accordance with a permit,

unless it is proved that it or he (as the case requires) was acting in bad faith.

ARTICLE 51

Service of documents

(1) A document may be served under this Law in any of the following ways –

(a) on an individual, by delivering it to him personally or by leaving it at his proper address or by sending it by recorded delivery post to him at that address;

(b) on a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) on the secretary or clerk of that body;

(c) on a partnership, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business; or

(d) on an unincorporated body or unincorporated association of persons, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) on any person having the control or management of its affairs.

(2) For the purposes of this Article, and of Article 12 of the Interpretation (Jersey) Law 195411 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to this Article, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served is his last known address, except that –

(a) in the case of service on a body corporate or its secretary or clerk, it is the address of the registered or principal office of the body; or

(b) in the case of service on a partnership or a partner or a person having the control or management of a partnership business, it is the address of the principal office of the partnership.

(3) In the case of a body incorporated outside the Island or of a partnership carrying on business outside the Island, its principal office in the Island is its principal office for the purposes of this Article.

(4) Where a person who is to be served under this Law with any document has specified an address in the Island other than his proper address (as determined in accordance with paragraph (2)) as the one at which he or someone on his behalf will accept service of documents, that address may be treated as the proper address for the purposes of this Article.

(5) Where a document is to be served under this Law –

(a) on the owner or person in charge of any land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft; or

(b) on the occupier of any land, the driver of a vehicle, the master of a vessel or hovercraft or the commander of an aircraft,

and after reasonable enquiry he cannot be found and his name and address cannot be ascertained, and the document relates to the land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft, the document may be served by delivering it personally to some other responsible person who is or appears to be resident or employed on or in it, or by affixing it (or a copy) conspicuously to any part of the land, vehicle, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft.

(6) This Article does not apply to any document for which provision for service is made by Rules of Court, but it does not prevent service by any other mode that is permitted by any other enactment or rule of law.

ARTICLE 52

Subordinate legislation

(1) The Committee may make Orders relating to all or any of the following matters –

(a) providing for any matters that are to be or may be prescribed under any other provisions of this Law;

(b) prescribing forms of application for the grant, variation, transfer or revocation of discharge permits, or information to be provided in support of such applications;

(d) prescribing forms in which records shall be kept or returns shall be made under this Law;

(e) prescribing the form of applications for certificates of confidentiality; or

(f) providing for such other matters as are reasonably necessary for or incidental to the purpose of carrying of this Law into effect.

(2) Regulations and Orders made under this Law may make different provision for different classes of cases.

(3) For the purposes of this Law –

(a) a standard condition that is for the time being prescribed in respect of a discharge permit; and

(b) a requirement that is for the time being prescribed as to the form in which records are to be kept or returns are to be made by a holder of a permit,

are conditions imposed by the Committee in the permit.

(4) The Subordinate Legislation (Jersey) Law 196012 shall apply to Orders made under this Law.

(5) The powers of the Superior Number of the Royal Court to make rules under the Royal Court (Jersey) Law 194813 shall include power to make rules for the purposes of this Law.

ARTICLE 53

Relationship to other enactments

(1) This Law does not relieve any person from an obligation to obtain any authorization, consent or permission that is required by or under any other enactment.

(2) Nothing in any of Articles 36, 37 and 39 –

(a) derogates from any right of action or other remedy (whether civil or criminal) in proceedings instituted otherwise than under any such Article; or

(b) affects any restriction imposed by or under any other enactment.

ARTICLE 54

Implementation of international obligations

The States may by Regulations modify this Law to give effect to any international agreement, or international obligation, that relates to the control of pollution in Island waters and is applicable to or binding on the Island.

ARTICLE 55

Application to Crown

(1) Subject to this Article, this Law shall bind the Crown.

(2) No contravention by the Crown of any provision of this Law shall make the Crown criminally liable.

(3) However –

(a) the Court may, on the application of the Committee, declare unlawful any act or omission of the Crown that contravenes a provision of this Law; and

(b) the provisions of this Law apply in any event to persons in the public service of the Crown as they apply to other persons.

(4) If the Lieutenant-Governor certifies that it appears to him that it is requisite or expedient that, in the interests of national security, any powers in or under this Law that are specified in the certificate should not be exercisable in relation to any Crown land specified in the certificate, those powers shall not be exercisable in respect of that land.

(5) This Law does not apply to Her Majesty in her private capacity.

ARTICLE 56

Repeals, amendments and transitional provisions

(1) The enactments specified in the first column of Schedule 3 are repealed to the extent specified in the second column of that Schedule.

(2) The enactments specified in the first column of Schedule 4 are amended in the manner specified in the second column of that Schedule.

(3) This Law shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions set out in Schedule 5.

(4) The States may by Regulations repeal paragraph 3 of Schedule 5, wholly or in respect of any category of charge specified in the Regulations.

ARTICLE 57

Citation and commencement

(1) This Law may be cited as the Water Pollution (Jersey) Law 2000.

(2) The following provisions of this Law shall come into force on the expiry of the seventh day following the registration of this Law –

(a) Part 1, Articles 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) of Article 15, Article 16, Part 5, Articles 29, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55, Article 56(2) (as far as it relates to paragraph 2 of Schedule 4), Article 56(3), this Article, Schedule 2 and Schedule 5; and

(b) Article 13, to the extent that it imposes a duty on the Committee.

(3) For the purposes of the Parts, Articles and Schedules specified in paragraph (2), the following provisions of this Law shall also come into force on the expiry of the seventh day following the registration of this Law, namely Articles 8, 9, 10, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 38, and 40 and Schedules 1 and 4.

(4) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), this Law shall come into force on the expiry of the period of six months following its registration.

G.H.C. COPPOCK

Greffier of the States.

SCHEDULE 1

(Articles 8(6); 57(3))

Information that need not be disclosed

The Committee shall not be obliged under Article 8 to make available any information –

(a) affecting the confidentiality of the proceedings of any public or parish authority;

(b) relating to international relations or national security;

(d) relating to matters that are the subject of legal or other proceedings (whether actual or prospective);

(e) relating to matters to which commercial or industrial confidentiality attaches (including matters of that character relating to intellectual property);

(f) relating to matters to which domestic or personal confidentiality attaches;

(g) supplied to the Committee by a person who was not under a legal obligation to do so;

(h) if the Committee, reasonably, is not satisfied of the reliability of the information;

(i) that cannot be separated, for the purpose of making it available, from information specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (h) (inclusive); or

(j) if the request for information is manifestly unreasonable or is formulated in too general a manner.

SCHEDULE 2

(Articles 19(1), (2); 57(2)(a), (3))

High risk substances

1. Any substance that has or is associated with any of the following properties, characteristics or features –

(a) persistency;

(b) toxicity or any other noxious property;

(d) radioactivity;

(e) a risk, caused anthropogenically, of eutrophication;

(f) transboundary significance;

(g) a risk of undesirable changes in the aquatic ecosystem, and irreversibility or durability of effects;

(h) interference with harvesting of foods in controlled waters; and

(i) effects on the taste or smell of anything from the aquatic environment that is intended for human consumption, or effects on smell, colour, transparency or other characteristics of controlled waters.

2. Without limiting the generality of paragraph 1, any substance that is of any of the following kinds –

(a) heavy metals and their compounds;

(b) organohalogen compounds and substances that may form such compounds in the aquatic environment;

(d) biocides, including pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and slimicides;

(e) chemicals used, inter alia, for the preservation of wood, timber, wood pulp, cellulose, paper, hides and textiles;

(f) oils and hydrocarbons of petroleum origin;

(g) nitrogen and phosphorus compounds; and

(h) radioactive substances and radioactive wastes.

3. Any substance whose presence in any controlled waters would affect adversely the standards of quality to be achieved in those waters under a Water Quality Order.

SCHEDULE 3

(Article 56(1))

Enactments repealed

(1)		(2)
Short title		Extent of repeal
1.	Loi (1937) sur les Egouts14	Article 12.
2.	Sewerage (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Jersey) Law 197915	The whole Law.
3.	Jersey Gas Company (Jersey) Law 198916	Articles 61 and 63.

SCHEDULE 4

(Articles 56(2); 57(2)(a), (3))

Consequential amendments

(1)	(2)
Short title	Extent of amendment
1. Loi (1937) sur les Egouts17	In Article 15, for the words “, autrement qu’en conformité des dispositions des Articles 12, 13 et 14 de la présente Loi, sera passible d’une amende n’excédant pas cinq cents livres sterling” there shall be substituted the words “par des travaux exécutés ainsi, sera passible d’un emprisonnement pour un terme n’excédant pas deux années ou d’une amende, ou d’un tel emprisonnement et d’une telle amende,”.
2. Water (Jersey) Law 197218	In Article 21(1), for the words “Where on a complaint made to it by a consumer, the Committee, after making due enquiry and after hearing both parties,” there shall be substituted the words “Where the Committee (whether on a complaint by a consumer or otherwise, and after making due enquiry and hearing the complainant, if any, and in any event the Company)”.

SCHEDULE 5

(Articles 47, 56(3), (4); 57(2)(a), (3))

Transitional provisions

1. Notwithstanding Article 17(1) –

(a) if within six months after the date on which the Articles specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) of Article 57 come into force (which Articles relate inter alia to applications for discharge permits), a person applies for a permit to introduce any sewage effluent or trade effluent into controlled waters; and

(b) the application has not been determined by the Committee by the date on which Article 17 comes into force,

that person may introduce the effluent into controlled waters, in the manner proposed in the application, until the application is determined by the Committee.

2. In considering an application to which paragraph 1 of this Schedule applies, the Committee need not comply with Article 10(2).

3. Notwithstanding Article 28, no charge under that Article shall be payable for –

(a) an application under paragraph 1 of this Schedule for a discharge permit;

(b) the holding of a permit that is granted on such an application; or

so far as the permit relates to the discharge of domestic sewage effluent.

4. In this Schedule, “trade effluent” includes any effluent resulting from the use of any land –

(a) for carrying on any business; or

(b) for any educational, medical, public, recreational or scientific purpose, or for the purpose of providing any amenity,

whether that use is for profit or not.

1 Volume 1970–1972, page 308.

2 Tome VII, page 219.

3 Tome VII, pages 218 and 219.

4 Volume 1970–1972, page 307, Volume 1988–1989, page 217 and Volume 1990–1991, page 35.

5 Volume 1970–1972, page 307, Volume 1988–1989, page 217 and Volume 1990–1991, page 35.

6 Volume 1992–1993, page 437.

7 Volume 1961–1962, page 395 and Volume 1994–1995, page 69.

8 Volume 1961–1962, pages 396 and 401, Volume 1963–1965, page 172, Volume 1970–1972, page 179, Volume 1979–1981, page 374 and Volume 1990–1991, page 852.

9 Volume 1961–1962, pages 397, 398 and 399 and Volume 1994–1995, page 69.

10 Volume 1961–1962, page 397 and Volume 1979–1981, page 375.

11 Tome VIII, page 381.

12 Tome VIII, page 849.

13 Tome VII, page 502, Volume 1979–1981, page 195, Volume 1984–1985, page 175, Volume 1990–1991, pages 113 and 855, Volume 1992–1993, page 461, Volume 1996–1997, pages 147 and 667 and Volume 1998, page 659.

14 Tome VII, page 220.

15 Volume 1979–1981, page 189.

16 Volume 1988–1989, pages 469 and 470.

17 Tome VII, page 221.

18 Volume 1970–1972, page 327.

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