PART 6INFRASTRUCTURE CONSENT ORDERS

Provision in orders: specific limitations and powers

82Discharge of water

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

an infrastructure consent order includes provision authorising the discharge of water into inland waters or underground strata, and

(b)

but for the order, the person to whom infrastructure consent is granted would have had no power to take water, or to require discharges to be made, from the inland waters or other source from which the discharges authorised by the order are intended to be made.

(2)

The order does not have the effect of conferring any such power on that person.