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Water Resources Act 1991

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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Byelaws for regulating the use of the Agency’s waterways etc.

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Version Superseded: 01/04/2013

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Byelaws for regulating the use of the [F1Agency’s] waterways etc.E+W

Textual Amendments

F1Word in the cross-heading to Sch. 25 para. 3 substituted (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 128 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

3(1)The [F2Agency] shall have power to make such byelaws as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below with respect to any waterway owned or managed by the [F2Agency] and with respect to any land held or managed with the waterway.E+W

(2)The byelaws referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above in relation to any waterway or to any land held or managed with any such waterway are byelaws for any of the following purposes, that is to say—

(a)the preservation of order on or in any such waterway or land;

(b)the prevention of damage to anything on or in any such waterway or land or to any such land;

(c)securing that persons resorting to any such waterway or land so behave as to avoid undue interference with the enjoyment of the waterway or land by others.

(3)Without prejudice to the generality of any of the paragraphs of sub-paragraph (2) above or to the power conferred on the [F2Agency] by virtue of paragraph 4 below, the byelaws mentioned in that sub-paragraph include byelaws—

(a)regulating sailing, boating, bathing and fishing and other forms of recreation;

(b)prohibiting the use of the waterway in question by boats which are not for the time being registered, in such manner as may be required by the byelaws, with the [F2Agency];

(c)requiring the provision of such sanitary appliances as may be necessary for the purpose of preventing pollution; and

(d)authorising the making of reasonable charges in respect of the registration of boats for the purposes of the byelaws.

(4)In this paragraph—

  • boat” and “boating” have the same meanings as in paragraph 2 above; and

  • waterway” has the same meaning as in the National Parks and Access to the M1Countryside Act 1949.

Textual Amendments

F2Words in Sch. 25 para. 3 substituted (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 128 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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