{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-135A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991/section-135A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/56",
  "legislation_title": "Water Industry Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-industry-act-1991",
  "path": "section/135A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "135A",
  "heading": "Power of the appropriate agency to acquire information for the purpose of its functions in relation to special category effluent.",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of the discharge of its functions under this Chapter, the appropriate agency may, by notice in writing served on any person, require that person to furnish such information specified in the notice as that appropriate agency reasonably considers it needs, in such form and within such period following service of the notice, or at such time, as is so specified.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement imposed under subsection (1) above, or\n(b) in furnishing any information in compliance with such a requirement, makes any statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) above shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 135A(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 247(2)(a) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 135A(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 247(2)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 135A inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 113 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 135A heading substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 247(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/135A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:46.295560+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."
}