Water Resources Act 1991

111 Arrangements with navigation and conservancy authorities. E+W

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, the [F1 appropriate agency], with a view to improving the drainage of any land, may enter into an arrangement with a navigation authority or conservancy authority for any of the following purposes, that is to say—

(a) the transfer to the [F1 appropriate agency] of—

(i) the whole or any part of the undertaking of the navigation authority or conservancy authority or of any of the rights, powers, duties, liabilities and obligations of that authority; or

(ii) any property vested in that authority as such;

(b) the alteration or improvement by the [F1 appropriate agency] of any of the works of the navigation authority or conservancy authority;

(c) the making of payments by the [F1 appropriate agency] to the navigation authority or conservancy authority or by that authority to the [F1 appropriate agency] in respect of any matter for which provision is made by the arrangement.

(2) The exercise by the [F1 appropriate agency] of its power to enter into an arrangement under this section shall require the approval of the Ministers.

(3) Where the [F1 appropriate agency] is intending to enter into an arrangement under this section it shall publish a notice of its intention in such manner as may be directed by either of the Ministers.

(4) Where an arrangement has been made under this section, the [F1 appropriate agency] shall cause a notice under subsection (5) below to be published in the London Gazette in such form as may be prescribed by regulations made by one of the Ministers.

(5) A notice under this subsection is a notice—

(a) stating that the arrangement has been made; and

(b) specifying the place at which a copy of the arrangement may be inspected by persons interested.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in ss. 109-111 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 274(b) (with Sch. 7)