Part I The Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency
F13Chapter 1AGeneral functions of the Agency and the Natural Resources Body for Wales
10 Incidental functions of the Agency F12and the Natural Resources Body for Wales.
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This section has effect—
a
for the purposes of section 37(1) below, as it applies in relation to the Agency; F1...
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for the purposes of article 9 of the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Establishment) Order 2012 (S.I.2012/1903), in relation to the Natural Resources Body for Wales; and
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and any reference in this section to “the relevant purposes” is a reference to the purposes described in paragraphs (a) F11, (aa) and (b) above.
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For the relevant purposes, the functions of F6an appropriate agency shall be taken to include the protection against pollution of—
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any underground strata from which the F8appropriate agency or any water undertaker is for the time being authorised to abstract water in pursuance of a licence under Chapter II of Part II of the 1991 Act (abstraction and impounding).
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For the relevant purposes, the functions of F9an appropriate agency shall be taken to include joining with or acting on behalf of one or more relevant undertakers for the purpose of carrying out any works or acquiring any land which at least one of the undertakers with which it joins, or on whose behalf it acts, is authorised to carry out or acquire for the purposes of—
a
any function of that undertaker under any enactment; or
b
any function which is taken to be a function of that undertaker for the purposes to which section 217 of the M1Water Industry Act 1991 applies.
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In this section—
“relevant undertaker” means a water undertaker or sewerage undertaker; and
“supply of water in bulk” means a supply of water for distribution by a water undertaker taking the supply.
Pt. I Ch. 1A heading inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 363(1) (with Sch. 7)