SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Minor and consequential amendments

Part 1Abstraction and impounding

Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57)

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1

Section 67 (ecclesiastical property) is amended as follows.

2

In subsections (1) and (2), after “Where the relevant land belongs to a benefice” there is inserted “ or (in the case of a licence under this Chapter to abstract water) where it is a benefice which has a right of access to the relevant land ”.

3

In subsection (8), in the definition of “the relevant land”, for paragraph (a) there is substituted—

a

the land to which an applicant for a licence to abstract water is required by section 35 above to have a right of access; or