SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 22 Minor and consequential amendments

The Water Industry Act 1991

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1

In section 206 of that Act (restriction on disclosure of information) in subsection (2) (information furnished under section 196 or 204) the words “196 or” shall cease to have effect.

2

In subsection (3)(a) of that section (exception for disclosure of information for purposes of functions under certain enactments)—

a

for the words “the NRA” there shall be substituted the words “ the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ”; and

b

for the words “or the Water Act 1989” there shall be substituted the words “ , M1the Water Act 1989, Part I or IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 or the M2Environment Act 1995 ”.

3

In subsection (4), in paragraph (a) (which provides that nothing in subsection (1) shall limit the matters which may be included in reports made by specified bodies under specified enactments)—

a

for the words “the NRA” there shall be substituted the words “ the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency ”; and

b

for the words “or of the Water Resources Act 1991” there shall be substituted the words “ , Part I or IIA of M3the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the M4Water Resources Act 1991 or the M5Environment Act 1995 ”.