PART IVWATER SUPPLY

CHAPTER VSUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS OF PART IV

Power to give effect to international agreements F1etc.135

1

Subject to paragraph (3), the Department may by regulations provide that the provisions of Chapters I to III shall have effect with such modifications as may be prescribed for the purpose of F2...—

F3a

giving effect to any F8assimilated obligation; or

b

F4enabling Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom to give effect to any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is for the time being a party.

2

DOE may by regulations provide that the provisions to which paragraph (3) applies shall have effect with such modifications as may be prescribed for the purpose of F5...—

F6a

giving effect to any F9assimilated obligation; or

b

F7enabling Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom to give effect to any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is for the time being a party.

3

Paragraph (2) applies to—

a

Article 107(2);

b

Articles 118 to 123; and

c

any other provisions of Chapter III so far as they have effect for the purposes of or in relation to those Articles.

4

Paragraph (1) shall not authorise any modification of—

a

any provision to which paragraph (2) applies;

b

any of Articles 111, 112 and 116; or

c

any other provisions of Chapters I to III so far as they have effect for the purposes of or in relation to those Articles.