The Reservoirs Act 1975 (Capacity, Registration, Prescribed Forms, etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Registration requirements

4.—(1) For the purpose of section 2(2C) of the 1975 Act, the information that is to be registered with the NRBW by an undertaker of a large raised reservoir is that prescribed in Schedule 1, paragraphs 1 to 7.

(2) The information prescribed in Schedule 1 must be registered—

(a) before the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the day of the issue of a final certificate given in accordance with section 7 of the 1975 Act(1) in relation to—

(i) the construction of a new reservoir;

(ii) the alteration of an existing structure or area that prior to its alteration was not a large raised reservoir; or

(iii) the alteration of an area of a reservoir that prior to its alteration was not a large raised reservoir;

(b) within 6 months of registration under section 2(2C) of the 1975 Act,

(c) whichever is the sooner.

(1)

Section 7 was amended in relation to England and Wales by section 33 of, and paragraphs 8 and 11 of Schedule 4 to, the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c.29).