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(1)Without prejudice to any other provision of this Act by virtue of which a local inquiry is authorised or required to be held, each of the Ministers shall have power to cause a local inquiry to be held in any case where it appears to him expedient to do so—
(a)in connection with any matter arising under Chapter II of Part II of this Act or the related water resources provisions; or
(b)otherwise in connection with any of the Authority’s functions.
(2)Without prejudice as aforesaid, the Secretary of State may cause a local inquiry to be held in any case in which he considers it appropriate for such an inquiry to be held—
(a)for the purposes of the establishment or review under section 83 above of any water quality objectives or otherwise in connection with any of the water pollution provisions of this Act;
(b)with a view to preventing or dealing with pollution of any controlled waters; or
(c)in relation to any other matter relevant to the quality of any such waters.
(3)In this section “controlled waters” has the same meaning as in Part III of this Act.
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