The Water Abstraction and Impounding (Exemptions) Regulations 2017

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 Introduction

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART 2 Exemptions from restriction on abstraction

   1. 3. Navigation, harbour and conservancy authorities and dry docks

   2. 4. Emergency abstractions by navigation, harbour and conservancy authorities

   3. 5. Small scale dewatering in the course of building or engineering works

   4. 6. Surface water abstraction in the course of building or engineering works

   5. 7. Abstraction in the course of dredging

   6. 8. Abstraction within a managed wetland system

   7. 9. Abstraction from specified saliferous strata

4. PART 3 Exemptions from restriction on impounding works

   1. 10. Construction or alteration of impounding works in emergencies

   2. 11. Construction or alteration of impounding works by internal drainage boards

   3. 12. Construction or alteration of impounding works in a managed wetland system

5. PART 4 Miscellaneous

   1. 13. Existing licences for abstraction

   2. 14. Transitional provision regarding managed wetland systems

6. Signature

7. 1. SCHEDULE

      Areas to which regulation 9(1) applies

8. Explanatory Note