{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/482",
  "legislation_title": "Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-and-impoundment-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person to—\n(a) contravene regulation 4;\n(b) fail to comply with the requirements of a notice issued under regulation 20(2);\n(c) intentionally to make a false entry in any record required to be kept as a condition of a licence;\n(d) with intent to deceive, forge or use a document issued or authorised to be issued under a condition of a licence or required for any purpose under a condition of such a licence or to make or have in that person’s possession a document so closely resembling any such document so as to be likely to deceive;\n(e) cause any person to commit an offence under sub-paragraphs (b) to (d) .\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (e) shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction—\n(i) to a fine not exceeding £20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both; and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding £200 for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction;\n(b) on conviction on indictment—\n(i) to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or to both; and\n(ii) in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine for every day during which the offence is continued after conviction.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1)(c) or (d) shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to a fine, or to both.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 in operation at 1.2.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/482/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:02.886135+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."
}