{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eels-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eels-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3344",
  "legislation_title": "The Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eels-england-and-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Abstraction and impounding works licences",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding sections 24 and 25 of the Water Resources Act 1991, any action required by the appropriate agency under this Part does not constitute an abstraction or impounding works for the purposes of that Act.\n(2) A notice served under this Part may disapply any condition relating to the passage of eels in an abstraction or impounding works licence granted under that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 359 (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3344/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:57:56.974993+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}