The Water Abstraction and Impounding (Exemptions) Regulations 2017 No. 1044

PART 4 E+W Miscellaneous

Existing licences for abstraction E+W

13.  A licence to abstract water granted under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the 1991 Act M1 ceases to have effect to the extent that it authorises an activity falling within regulation 7 or 8.

Marginal Citations

M1 Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Water Resources Act 1991 was amended by Part 1 of the Water Act 2003.

Transitional provision regarding managed wetland systems E+W

14.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—

(a) a person has, in the seven years prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, abstracted water from a managed wetland system for the sole purpose of the management, operation or maintenance of water levels or flows in that managed wetland system, and

(b) written consent under [F1 regulation 102(2) of the 2017 Regulations] is required for that abstraction.

(2) The person may continue that abstraction in paragraph (1) until—

(a) the date an application for such consent to that abstraction is determined by the appropriate agency, or

(b) if no such application is submitted, 31st December 2019.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 14(1)(b) substituted (17.9.2018 for E. and 17.12.2018 for W.) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/942), regs. 1(2), 35(3) and The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1216), regs. 1(3), 16(3)