C1 Part IV FLOOD DEFENCE
Arrangements with certain authorities
111 Arrangements with navigation and conservancy authorities.
1
Subject to subsection (2) below, the F1appropriate agency, with a view to improving the drainage of any land, may enter into an arrangement with a navigation authority or conservancy authority for any of the following purposes, that is to say—
a
the transfer to the F1appropriate agency of—
i
the whole or any part of the undertaking of the navigation authority or conservancy authority or of any of the rights, powers, duties, liabilities and obligations of that authority; or
ii
any property vested in that authority as such;
b
the alteration or improvement by the F1appropriate agency of any of the works of the navigation authority or conservancy authority;
2
The exercise by the F1appropriate agency of its power to enter into an arrangement under this section shall require the approval of the Ministers.
3
Where the F1appropriate agency is intending to enter into an arrangement under this section it shall publish a notice of its intention in such manner as may be directed by either of the Ministers.
4
Where an arrangement has been made under this section, the F1appropriate agency shall cause a notice under subsection (5) below to be published in the London Gazette in such form as may be prescribed by regulations made by one of the Ministers.
5
A notice under this subsection is a notice—
a
stating that the arrangement has been made; and
b
specifying the place at which a copy of the arrangement may be inspected by persons interested.
Pt. IV (ss. 105-113): functions transferred to the Environment Agency (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 2(1)(a)(iii) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)