Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 336

WATER RESOURCES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Water Resources (Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1989

Made

6th March 1989

Laid before Parliament

10th March 1989

Coming into force

1st April 1989

The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred by section 54 of the Water Resources Act 1963(1) and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Water Resources (Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

2. In regulation 2(1) of the Water Resources (Licences) Regulations 1965(3), after the definition of “the Minister”, there shall be inserted–

““National Park” includes the Broads;

“National Park planning authority” includes the Broads Authority;”.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

6th March 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Water Resources (Licences) Regulations 1965. They are occasioned by the amendment of s.54(3) of the Water Resources Act 1963 by the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988. That sub-section requires regulations to be made providing for notice to be given to, and allowing representations to be made by, National Park planning authorities about applications for licences to abstract or impound water which may concern them. The 1988 Act amendment extends the obligation to make regulations to apply to the Broads Authority and the Broads. These Regulations amend the existing regulations accordingly.

(1)

1963 c. 38; section 54(3) was amended by the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Act 1988 (c. 4), Schedule 3.

(2)

S.I. 1970/1681.

(3)

S.I. 1965/534.