Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57)

Part I E+W+S PRELIMINARY

CHAPTER I E+W+S THE NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY

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Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F2 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F3 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F4 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F5 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

CHAPTER II E+W COMMITTEES WITH FUNCTIONS IN RELATION TO THE AUTHORITY

Advisory committees E+W

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Textual Amendments

F6 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22, para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F7 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22, para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F8 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22, para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

Flood defence committees E+W

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Textual Amendments

F9 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22, para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F10 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F11 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F12 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22, para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F13 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F14 Ss. 1-14 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 129, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

CHAPTER III E+W GENERAL DUTIES

15 General duties with respect to the water industry. E+W

(1) It shall be the duty of the [F15 Agency], in exercising any of its powers under any enactment, to have particular regard to the duties imposed, by virtue of the provisions of Parts II to IV of the M1 Water Industry Act 1991, on any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker which appears to the [F15 Agency] to be or to be likely to be affected by the exercise of the power in question.

(2) It shall be the duty of each of the Ministers, in exercising—

(a) any power conferred by virtue of [F16 the 1995 Act,]this Act, the M2 Land Drainage Act 1991, the Water Industry Act 1991 or the M3 Water Act 1989 in relation to, or to decisions of, the [F15 Agency]; or

(b) any power which, but for any direction given by one of the Ministers, would fall to be exercised by the [F15 Agency],

to take into account the duty imposed on the [F15 Agency] by subsection (1) above.

Textual Amendments

F15 Word in s. 15 substituted (subject to the other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 128 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

F16 Words in s. 15(2)(a) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 130 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

Marginal Citations

M1 1991 c. 56.

M2 1991 c. 59.

M3 1989 c. 15.

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Textual Amendments

F17 Ss. 16-19 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22, para. 131, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F18 Ss. 16-19 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22, para. 131, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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Textual Amendments

F19 Ss. 16-19 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, SCh. 22, para. 131, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3