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Registers of licences under sections 4 and 16 and of water abstractions.
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9.—(1) Each local authority shall cause to be established and kept a register of all licences under section 4 granted by it.
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(2) Each local authority shall cause to be established and kept a register of abstractions from waters in its functional area.
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(3) Each sanitary authority shall cause to be established and kept a register of all licences under section 16 granted by it.
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(4) A register under this section shall be kept at the offices of the local authority or sanitary authority and shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any person.
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(5) Any person shall be entitled to obtain from a local authority or sanitary authority a copy of any entry in a register under this section on payment of a prescribed fee.
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(6) Every document purporting to be a copy of an entry in a register under this section and purporting to be certified by an officer of a local authority or sanitary authority to be a true copy of the entry shall, without proof of the signature of the person purporting so to certify or that he was such officer, be received in evidence in any legal proceedings and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a true copy of the entry and to be evidence of the terms of the entry.
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(7) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of this section.
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(8) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (7), regulations under this section may provide that specified classes of abstractions shall be exempt from subsection (2).
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