Water Resources Act 1991

[F1 193A Inspection and copies E+W

(1) The Agency must provide reasonable facilities for inspecting the main river map for England in electronic form.

(2) The Agency must on request provide any person with—

(a) a hard copy of all or part of the map, or

(b) data comprising all or part of the map in electronic form.

(3) The Agency may charge a fee for providing a copy or data under subsection (2), but the fee—

(a) must, in the case of a person appearing to the Agency to have requested a copy or data for commercial purposes, represent a reasonable usage fee, and

(b) in any other case, may not exceed the reasonable costs of providing the copy or data.

(4) The Agency must on request provide a body mentioned in the first column of the following table with a hard copy of, or data comprising, such part of the main river map for England as is described in the second column of the entry for that body.

A local authority in England	The part that relates to the local authority's area
An internal drainage board for an internal drainage district that is wholly or partly in England	The part that relates to its district, so far as that district is in England
A water company that exercises functions in relation to an area in England	The part that relates to that area
A highway authority that exercises functions in relation to highways in England	The part that relates to the area in England in relation to which it exercises functions
A navigation authority that exercises functions in relation to an area in England	The part that relates to that area

(5) The Documentary Evidence Act 1868 has effect as if—

(a) the Agency were mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to that Act;

(b) any member of the staff of the Agency authorised to act on behalf of the Agency were specified in the second column of the Schedule to that Act in connection with the Agency;

(c) the regulation referred to in that Act included the main river map for England kept by the Agency;

(d) references to a copy included references to a print-out of information kept in electronic form.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 193-194E substituted for ss. 193, 194 (1.10.2014) by Water Act 2014 (c. 21), ss. 59(2), 94; S.I. 2014/1823, art. 3