164 Consents for certain discharges under section 163

164  Consents for certain discharges under section 163

(1)     Except in an emergency, no discharge through any pipe the diameter of which exceeds two hundred and twenty-nine millimetres shall be made under section 163 above except with such consent as may be prescribed.

(2)     Where the [appropriate agency] makes an application to any person for a consent for the purposes of this section—

(a)     that application shall be accompanied or supplemented by all such information as that person may reasonably require; and

(b)     the [appropriate agency] shall serve a copy of the application, and of any consent given on that application, on every person who—

(i)     is registered with the [appropriate agency] in respect of any premises which are within three miles of the place where the discharge to which the application relates is proposed to be made and are not upstream from that place; and

(ii)     has not agreed in writing that he need not be served with such a copy;

but, subject to subsection (4) below and without prejudice to the effect

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