PART 2Amendments to legislation concerning the environment
The Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017I115
In regulation 9 of the Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 201752, for paragraph (3) substitute—
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In paragraph (1), an abstraction of more limited extent does not include—
a
a Qn95 hands-off flow constraint on a licence where the licensed abstraction is from a body of inland waters or a body of groundwater where the recent actual flow or quantitative status of the source of supply does not support good ecological potential, good ecological status or good quantitative status, or
b
75% of Qn99 hands-off flow constraint on a licence where the licenced abstraction is from a body of inland waters or a body of groundwater where the recent actual flow or quantitative status of the source of supply supports good ecological potential, good ecological status or good quantitative status.