PART III ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS OF THE AGENCY IN RELATION TO THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS

General duties of the Agency under this Part

5.  It shall be the duty of the Agency to exercise the powers of this Part—

(a) to manage the principal rivers for the purposes of—

(i) protecting the interests of those navigating and using them, and

(ii) promoting, to such extent as it considers desirable, their navigation and use;

(b) to maintain the principal rivers for the purposes of their navigation and use to such standard as appears to it to be reasonably practicable, and to take such steps to improve them as it thinks fit; and

(c) for such purposes relating to any of its other functions as it considers necessary.