This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect SI 2006/641 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 165

water RESOURCES, england and wales

The Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Made

26th January 2008

Laid before Parliament

31st January 2008

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

31st January 2008

Coming into force

29th February 2008

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In relation to Wales, the powers to make regulations under the provisions of the Water Resources Act 1991 have been transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) (the entry relating to the Water Resources Act 1991 in Schedule 1 to that Order has been amended by section 100(4) of the Water Act 2003 (c.37) (“the WA”) and, by virtue of section 100(6) of the WA, references to the Water Resources Act 1991 in that Schedule are treated as references to that Act as amended by the WA). Those powers are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.38).