SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 22 Minor and consequential amendments

The Water Resources Act 1991

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1

Section 204 of that Act (restriction on disclosure of information with respect to any particular business) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

2

In subsection (2)(a) (exception for disclosure of information for purposes of functions under certain enactments)—

a

for the words “the Authority” there shall be substituted the words “the Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”; and

b

for the words “or the Water Act 1989” there shall be substituted the words “, the M1Water Act 1989, Part I or IIA of the M2Environmental Protection Act 1990 or the 1995 Act”.

3

In subsection (3), in paragraph (a) (which provides that nothing in subsection (1) shall limit the matters which may be included in reports made by specified bodies under specified enactments)—

a

after sub-paragraph (i), there shall be inserted—

ia

the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;

b

for the words “or that Act of 1991” there shall be substituted the words “, Part I or IIA of the M3Environmental Protection Act 1990, that Act of 1991 or the 1995 Act”.

4

In paragraph (b) of that subsection, after the words “that Act” there shall be inserted the words “of 1991”.