SCHEDULE 3TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

1.

(1)

Until the relevant day, sections 27A (variation of small quantity threshold) and 33A (power to provide for further exemptions) of the WRA, as inserted by sections 6 and 9 respectively, shall have effect as if—

(a)

all of the provisions of section 6(1) (rights to abstract small quantities) were in force; and

(b)

those sections did not enable an order or regulations to be made so as to come into force before the relevant day.

(2)

In this paragraph, “the relevant day” means the first day on which all of the provisions of section 6(1) are in force.