The Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 2006

Acknowledgement of receipt

8.—(1) The Agency must serve on the applicant an acknowledgement in writing—

(a) in a case of an application for a full licence, a transfer licence or an impounding licence, other than a case falling within sub–paragraph (c), by the date 28 days after the relevant date;

(b) in a case of an application under section 51(2) (which provides for variation on an application by the licence holder), by the date 28 days after the relevant date; and

(c) in a case of an application for a full licence or transfer licence where, after the relevant date but on or before the date referred to in sub–paragraph (a), the Agency serves notice on the applicant of a decision under subsection (1) of section 36A (applications: types of abstraction licence)—

(i) if no notice of appeal is served, by the date 28 days after the end of the period within which notice of appeal against that decision may be served; or

(ii) if notice of appeal is so served, by the date 28 days after the day on which the Agency receives notice of the determination or withdrawal or that appeal.

(2) The acknowledgement must state—

(a) the relevant date;

(b) whether a notice of the application has been, or is to be, published in accordance with section 37(1);

(c) the date, if known, by which the application is required to be determined; and

(d) the applicant’s entitlement to appeal should the Agency fail, within the period referred to in paragraph (2), (3) or (4) (as the case may be) of regulation 10, to serve on the applicant notice in accordance with that regulation of the Agency’s decision on the application or its reference to the Secretary of State or the Assembly.