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Paragraph 12 I1

England and Wales

For the purposes of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Water Resources Act 1991f1 (abstraction and impounding of water) and section 109 of that Act (as to structures in, over or under watercourses) as applying to the construction of any specified work, any consent or approval given or deemed to be given by the F1Natural Resources Body for Wales under this Schedule with respect to such construction shall be deemed also to constitute a licence under that Chapter to obstruct or impede the flow of inland waters at that point by means of impounding works or, as the case may be, a consent or approval under section 109, and the undertaker shall not be obliged to serve any notice which would otherwise be required by section 30 of the said Act of 1991 (which relates to the construction of boreholes and similar works in respect of which a licence is not required).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 4 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 63 (with Sch. 7)

Commencement

I1

Sch. 4 para. 12 in force at 27.8.2010, see art. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

1991 c. 57