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(1)This Act may be cited as the Water Resources Act 1991.
(2)This Act shall come into force on 1st December 1991.
(3)Subject to subsections (4) to (6) of section 2 and to section 224 above, to the extension of section 166(3) above to Scotland and to the extension, by virtue of any other enactment, of any provision of this Act to the territorial sea, this Act extends to England and Wales only.
(4)Nothing in this Act, so far as it extends to Scotland, shall authorise the [F1Agency] to acquire any land in Scotland compulsorily.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in s. 225 substituted (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 128 (wth ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3
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