SCHEDULE 2ACTS OF PARLIAMENT

PART 1Public General Acts

Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57)281

1

Section 157 is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1), after “the Agency” insert “and the NRBW”.

3

In subsection (2), after “the Agency” insert “or, as the case may be, the NRBW”.

4

After subsection (6) insert—

7

In this section “compulsorily acquired land”, in relation to the NRBW, means any land of the NRBW which—

a

was acquired by the NRBW compulsorily under the provisions of section 154 above or of an order under section 168 below;

b

was acquired by the NRBW at a time when it was authorised under those provisions to acquire the land compulsorily; or

c

being land which has been transferred to the NRBW from the Agency in accordance with a scheme made under section 23 of the Public Bodies Act 2011, was compulsorily acquired land of the Agency within the meaning of subsection (6).