- Enforced by
- Environment Agency
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 1 of 2 obligations carry imprisonment (5 years). 1 carries different penalties — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person2
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.006
Amendment of Schedule 21 (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Unlawful discharge of sewage caused by a third partyAny Person
s.007
Amendment of Schedule 22 (opens in a new tab)
Imprisonment
- Unauthorised discharge of pollutants into groundwaterAny Person
12 other provisions — procedural and definitional
reg 5
UKSI 2023/651
s.001
Citation, commencement and extent
s.002
Amendment of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016
s.002
Amendment of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (opens in a new tab)
s.003
Amendment of regulation 2
s.004
Amendment of regulation 24
s.006
Amendment of Schedule 21
s.007
Amendment of Schedule 22
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.