{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-35.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2014/9780111024782",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-water-supplies-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for Scottish Water to contravene—\n(a) regulation 29(1);\n(b) a requirement of a notice given to it under regulation 31(3)(d);\n(c) regulation 33(1);\n(d) a requirement of a notice given to it under regulation 33(7);\n(e) a requirement of a notice given to it under regulation 34(1)(b); or\n(f) a requirement of a notice given to it under regulation 34(2)(b).\n(2) In any proceedings against Scottish Water for an offence under paragraph (1)(a) or (1)(b), it is a defence to show that Scottish Water took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.\n(3) It is an offence for a person furnishing information or making an application (for approval) under regulation 33 or 34 to make a statement which that person knows to be false in a material particular, or to recklessly make a statement which is false in a material particular.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (1) or (3) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 5 and section 23(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), “person” includes a body of persons corporate (such as Scottish Water) and unincorporate (such as Scottish partnership or other association)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2014/9780111024782/regulation/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:35:33.542827+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}