{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/schedule-4/paragraph-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/schedule-4/paragraph-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/45",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/37",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Provisions as to pollution by liquids resulting from manufacture of gas, etc.",
  "text": "Any person engaged in the manufacture or supply of gas, whether under statutory authority or not, or in any of the manufactures or trades mentioned in this subsection who—\n(a) causes or suffers any washing or other liquid produced in, or resulting from, the manufacture or supply of gas, or the treatment of any residual products of the manufacture of gas, or any product, washing or other substance produced in the manufacture of naphtha, vitriol, paraffin, dye stuffs or other deleterious substance or in any trade in which the refuse produced in any such manufacture is used, to run or be conducted—\n(i) into, or into any drain communicating with, any stream, reservoir, aqueduct or other waterworks belonging to the undertakers; or\n(ii) into any depression in the ground or excavation in such proximity to any spring, well or adit belonging to the undertakers that contamination of water there is reasonably probable; or\n(b) wilfully does any other act connected with the manufacture or supply of gas or the treatment of any such residual products as aforesaid, or connected with any of the other manufactures or trades specified as aforesaid whereby any water of the undertakers is fouled,\nshall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and to a further fine not exceeding £25 for each day during which his offence continues after conviction therefor; or\n(b) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months or to a fine and to a further fine for each such day as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), Sch. 15 para. 28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2003/3",
      "affecting_title": "Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/schedule/4/paragraph/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:16.376021+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."
}