Local Government (Water Pollution) Act, 1977

Review of licence under section 16.

17.—(1) A sanitary authority may review a licence under section 16 at intervals of not less than three years from the date of the licence or the last review of the licence, or at any time with the consent of the person making, causing or permitting the discharge.

(2) As soon as may be after it has completed a review under this section, a sanitary authority may amend or delete any condition attached to the licence or attach new conditions to the licence, and where appropriate shall grant a revised licence under section 16 in substitution for the licence reviewed.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any provision in a licence under section 16—

(a) any such licence may be reviewed at any time by the sanitary authority which granted it where the authority has reasonable grounds for believing the discharge authorised by the licence to be a significant threat to public health or where a material change (which could not reasonably have been foreseen when the licence was granted) has taken place in conditions in the waters to which the sewer discharges,

(b) where regulations under section 26 relate to a trade effluent the discharge of which is authorised by such a licence, the licence shall be reviewed by the sanitary authority which granted it as soon as may be after the regulations are made,

(c) where regulations under section 26 relate to sewage effluent from a sewer or to waters to which sewage effluent from a sewer discharges, any such licence which authorises the discharge of trade effluent to the sewer shall be reviewed by the sanitary authority which granted it as soon as may be after the regulations are made,

and subsection (2) shall apply to a review under this subsection.

(4) (a) The Minister may make regulations for the purpose of this section.

(b) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a), regulations under this subsection may make provision in relation to all or any of the following matters:

(i) the giving of notice by a sanitary authority to a person discharging or causing or permitting a discharge of intention to review a licence, and

(ii) requiring a statement in such a notice that representations relating to the review may be made within a specified period