WATER SERVICES (ESTABLISHMENT OF PENALTIES) REGULATIONS

WATER SERVICES (ESTABLISHMENT OF PENALTIES)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 545.05

WATER SERVICES (ESTABLISHMENT OF

PENALTIES) REGULATIONS

8th February, 1994

LEGAL NOTICE 17 of 1994, as amended by Legal Notice 426 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is the Water Services

(Establishment of Penalties) Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,

"the Act" means the Water Services Corporation Act.

Any person found guilty of an offence against the

provisions of article 43 of the Act shall, in the case of a first

conviction, be liable to fine (multa) of not less than two thousand

and three hundred and twenty-nine euro and thirty-seven cents

(€2,329.37) but not exceeding four thousand and six hundred and

fifty-eight euro and seventy-five cents (€4,658.75) and, in the case

of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine (multa) of not less

than nine thousand and three hundred and seventeen euro and

forty-nine cents (€9,317.49) but not exceeding eighteen thousand

and six hundred and thirty-four euro and ninety-nine cents

(€18,634.99).

Any person found guilty of an offence against the

provisions of article 50 or of article 51 of the Act shall, in the case

of a first against conviction, be liable to a fine (multa) of not less

than four hundred and sixty-five euro and eighty-seven cents

(€465.87) but not exceeding two thousand and three hundred and

twenty-nine euro and thirty-seven cents (€2,329.37) and, in the

case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine (multa) of not

less than four thousand and six hundred and fifty-eight euro and

seventy-five cents (€4,658.75) but not exceeding nine thousand and

three hundred and seventeen euro and forty-nine cents (€9,317.49).

Any person found guilty of any offence against the Act not

being an offence against the provisions of articles 43, 50 or 51 of

the same Act shall, in the case of a first conviction, be liable to a

fine (multa) of not less than two hundred and thirty-two euro and

ninety-four cents (€232.94) but not exceeding one thousand and

three hundred and ninety-seven euro and sixty-two cents

(€1,397.62) and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction,

to a fine (multa) of not less than three thousand and four hundred

and ninety-four euro and six cents (€3,494.06) but not exceeding

five thousand and eight hundred and twenty-three euro and forty-

three cents (€5,823.43).

Where any offence referred to in the foregoing regulations

is a continuing offence the court shall, in addition to the fine

(multa) prescribed in the said regulations, award an additional fine

of not less than one hundred and sixteen euro and forty-seven cents

(€116.47) but not exceeding one thousand and one hundred and

sixty-four euro and sixty-nine cents (€1,164.69) for every day, or

WATER SERVICES (ESTABLISHMENT OF PENALTIES)

part thereof, during which the continuance shall have subsisted,

sohowever that the fine (multa) for the continuance of the offence

and the fine (multa) awarded under the said regulations shall not

exceed, in the aggregate, twenty-three thousand and two hundred

and ninety-three euro and seventy-three cents (€23,293.73).

The punishments laid down in these regulations shall apply

saving any other higher punishment to which the offender may be

subject under any other law.