12(1)Works for the transfer of water resources between river basins where this transfer aims at preventing possible shortages of water and where the amount of water transferred exceeds 100 million cubic metres per year.S
(2)Works for the transfer of water resources between river basins where the multi-annual average flow of the basin of abstraction exceeds 2,000 million cubic metres per year and where the amount of water transferred exceeds 5 per cent of this flow.
(3)In sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), transfers of piped drinking water are excluded.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 20.2.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/19, art. 2