The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018

The Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017E+W

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14.  In regulation 9 of the Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 M1, for paragraph (3) substitute–—

“(3) In paragraph (1), an abstraction of more limited extent does not include—

(a)a Qn95 hands-off flow constraint on a licence where the licensed abstraction is from a body of inland waters or a body of groundwater where the recent actual flow or quantitative status of the source of supply does not support good ecological potential, good ecological status or good quantitative status, or

(b)75% of Qn99 hands-off flow constraint on a licence where the licensed abstraction is from a body of inland waters or a body of groundwater where the recent actual flow or quantitative status of the source of supply supports good ecological potential, good ecological status or good quantitative status.”.

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