[78K Liability in respect of contaminating substances which escape to other land]
Environmental Protection Act 1990 (1990 c 43) | Legislation

[78K  Liability in respect of contaminating substances which escape to other land]

[(1)     A person who has caused or knowingly permitted any substances to be in, on or under any land shall also be taken for the purposes of this Part to have caused or, as the case may be, knowingly permitted those substances to be in, on or under any other land to which they appear to have escaped.

(2)     Subsections (3) and (4) below apply in any case where it appears that any substances are or have been in, on or under any land (in this section referred to as “land A”) as a result of their escape, whether directly or indirectly, from other land in, on or under which a person caused or knowingly permitted them to be.

(3)     Where this subsection applies, no remediation notice shall require a person–

(a)     who is

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