In section 147 of the M1Water Resources Act 1991 (grants for drainage works) in subsection (4), after the words “expenditure properly incurred by it with a view to” there shall be inserted “ (a) ” and at the end of that subsection there shall be added—

“(b)

enabling it to determine in any particular case whether drainage works, or drainage works of any particular description, should or should not be carried out;

(c)

obtaining or organising information, including information about natural processes affecting the coastline, to enable it to formulate or develop its plans with respect to the defence against sea water of any part of the coastline; or

(d)

obtaining, at any time after the carrying out of drainage works, information with respect to—

(i)

the quality or effectiveness, or the effect on the environment, of those works; or

(ii)

any matter of a financial nature relating to those works.

(4A)

Paragraphs (b) to (d) of subsection (4) above are without prejudice to any power—

(a)

to make any grant under subsection (1) or (4)(a) above, or

(b)

to impose any condition under subsection (2) above,

which could be made or imposed apart from those paragraphs.”

In section 59 of the M2Land Drainage Act 1991 (grants to drainage bodies) in subsection (4), after the words “expenditure properly incurred by them with a view to” there shall be inserted “ (a) ” and at the end of that subsection there shall be added—

“(b)

enabling them to determine in any particular case whether drainage works, or drainage works of any particular description, should or should not be carried out;

(c)

obtaining or organising information, including information about natural processes affecting the coastline, to enable them to formulate or develop their plans with respect to the defence against sea water of any part of the coastline; or

(d)

obtaining, at any time after the carrying out of drainage works, information with respect to—

(i)

the quality or effectiveness, or the effect on the environment, of those works; or

(ii)

any matter of a financial nature relating to those works.

(4A)

Paragraphs (b) to (d) of subsection (4) above are without prejudice to any power—

(a)

to make any grant under subsection (1) or (4)(a) above, or

(b)

to impose any condition under subsection (2) above,

which could be made or imposed apart from those paragraphs.”