{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1047",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-abstraction-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional procedures for applications by persons other than the appropriate agency",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a person to whom this Part applies, other than the appropriate agency , applies for a licence before 31st December 2019the transitional period end date.\n(2) Where the licence application relates to the abstraction described in regulation 3(1)(a), the application must be made and determined in accordance with the Schedule to these Regulations instead of in accordance with Part 2 of the 2006 Regulations.\n(3) Where the licence application relates to an abstraction other than the one described in regulation 3(1)(a), in addition to complying with the requirements of Part 2 of the 2006 Regulations, that person must—\n(a) disclose to the appropriate agency when so applying that they have abstracted water as described in regulation 3(1)(a), and\n(b) provide such additional information as the appropriate agency may reasonably require to perform its functions under the 2006 Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (E.) (31.12.2019) by The Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1455), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 221 of the Water Resources Act 1991 for the definition of the “appropriate agency”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1047/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:07:02.838148+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."
}