The National Park Authorities (England) Order 1996

Water

6.—(1) Schedule 11 to the Water Industry Act 1991(1) shall apply as if a National Park authority were a local authority for the purposes of paragraph 1(3)(b) (persons to be notified of compulsory works order application).

(2) The Water Resources Act 1991(2) shall apply as if—

(a) in section 72(2)(a) (watercourses excluded from provisions of the Act) at the end there were added—

“(v) a National Park authority.”;

(b) in section 158(1) (works agreements), section 197(5) (information), paragraph 2(3)(a) of Schedule 5 (procedure) and paragraph 1(4)(b) of Schedule 6 (exemption orders), after the words“local authority” there were in each case inserted “National Park authority,”.

(1)

1991 c. 56.

(2)

1991 c. 57.