Explanatory Notes

Water Act 2003

2003 CHAPTER 37

20th November 2003

Commentary on Sections

Part 3: Miscellaneous

Section 73 Border rivers
370. .Section 73: Border rivers.

The Agency’s abstraction and impoundment regulatory controls do not apply to certain rivers and their tributaries on the border between England and Scotland. The waters concerned include the River Tweed, which because of its definition includes the River Till situated largely in England, and the Rivers Esk and Sark and certain of their tributaries. The section amends the WRA to apply these controls in the English parts of those river catchments.