# Public Health Act 1936, Section 331: Works affecting water rights.


Nothing in this Act shall authorise a local authority injuriously to affect any reservoir, canal, watercourse, river or stream, or any feeder thereof, or the supply, quality or fall of water contained in, or in any feeder of, any reservoir, canal, watercourse, river or stream without the consent of any person who would, if this Act had not been passed, have been entitled by law to prevent, or be relieved against, the injurious affection of, or of the supply, quality or fall of water contained in, that reservoir, canal, watercourse, river, stream or feeder.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5and1Edw8/26/49/section/331 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-act-1936/section-331
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