Part II Water Resources Management

Chapter II ABSTRACTION AND IMPOUNDING

Supplemental provisions of Chapter II

66 Inland waters owned or managed by F1Canal & River Trust.

(1)

This section applies to all inland waters owned or managed by F2Canal & River Trust, except any such inland waters to which the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument direct that this section shall not apply.

(2)

In respect of abstraction from any inland waters to which this section applies—

F3(a)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

no person other than F4Canal & River Trust shall be entitled to apply for a licence under this Chapter;

(c)

in relation to any application by F5Canal & River Trust for a licence under this Chapter—

(i)

section 35 above shall not apply; and

(ii)

section 37 above shall apply as if F6paragraphs (b) and (c), and the succeeding words, of subsection (3) of that section were omitted.

(3)

Before making an order under subsection (1) above, the Secretary of State shall consult F7Canal & River Trust and the F8appropriate agency.