Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57)

Part VII E+W+S Land and Works Powers

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. VII (ss. 154-186): Transfer of functions (1.4.1996) to the Agency by 1995 c. 25, s. 2(1)(a)(iv) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

chapter I E+W+S POWERS OF THE [F1 APPROPRIATE AGENCY]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Pt. 7 Ch. 1 heading substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 277 (with Sch. 7)

[F2 Restoration and improvement works for controlled waters E+W

Textual Amendments

F2 Ss. 161-161AB substituted for s. 161 (22.12.2009) by Water Resources Act 1991 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3104), regs. 1(c), 5 (with reg. 7)

161AB. Works notices: exceptions etc E+W

(1)  Nothing in section 161A shall entitle the [F3 appropriate agency] to require the carrying out of any works or operations which would impede or prevent the making of any discharge in pursuance of [F4 an environmental permit] .

(2) No works notice shall be served on any person requiring him to carry out any works or operations in respect of water from an abandoned mine or an abandoned part of a mine which that person permitted to enter any controlled waters or to reach a place from which it was likely, in the opinion of the [F3 appropriate agency], to enter any controlled waters.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the service of a notice on the owner or former operator of any mine or part of a mine if the mine or part in question became abandoned after 31st December 1999.

F5 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) In this section “mine” has the same meaning as in the Mines and Quarries Act 1954.]

Textual Amendments

F3 Words in ss. 159-161B substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 283 (with Sch. 7)

F4 Words in s. 161AB(1) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 26 para. 8(8)(b) (with reg. 1(2), Sch. 4)

F5 S. 161AB(4) repealed (6.4.2010) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 26 para. 8(2)(n), Sch. 28 (with reg. 1(2), Sch. 4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 Ss. 161-161D modified by S.I. 2010/675, Sch. 23 Pt. 8 para. 3 Table 9 (as substituted (1.10.2011) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2043), reg. 1(b), Sch. 1)

C3 Ss. 161-161D modified (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 23 Pt. 7 paras. 1(3), 2 (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)