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England and Wales As made

WATER RESOURCES, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made

27th October 2025

Laid before Parliament

28th October 2025

Laid before Senedd Cymru

28th October 2025

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Secretary of State in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of, and paragraph 20(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999f1 (“the Act”).

The Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers have, in accordance with section 2(4) of the Act, consulted—

  1. the Environment Agency,

  2. the Natural Resources Body for Wales,

  3. such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses as they consider appropriate, and

  4. such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.

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Footnotes

f1

1999 c. 24. Section 2 was amended by S.I. 2013/755 (W. 90); there are other amending instruments but none is relevant. See paragraph 20(2) of Schedule 1 for the definition of “the relevant directives”. Functions of the Secretary of State, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales, except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation, by virtue of article 3(1) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1958). Functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).