Water Resources Act 1963

4 (1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, the appropriate Minister or Ministers, with or without a local inquiry, may refuse to confirm any byelaw submitted for confirmation under this Schedule, or may confirm the byelaw ether without modification or (subject to the consent of the river authority) with such modification as he or they think fit; and the authority shall, if so directed by the appropriate Minister or Ministers, cause notice of any proposed modification to be given in accordance with such directions.

(2) A byelaw made under section 5 of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951 shall not be confirmed without a local inquiry if any written objection to its confirmation has been received by the Ministers and has not been withdrawn:

Provided that this sub-paragraph shall not apply to any objection if, in the opinion of the Ministers, the parson making it has no material interest in the stream or part of a stream to which the byelaw relates.

(3) In relation to any such byelaw as is mentioned in the last preceding sub-paragraph, sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall have effect with the substitution for the words " subject to the consent of the river authority " of the words " after consultation with the river authority ".