{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/37",
  "legislation_title": "Water Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-act-2003",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Transfer of discharge consents",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 11 of Schedule 10 to the WRA (transfer of discharge consents) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (2), the words “, subject to sub-paragraph (4) below,” are omitted.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (3), the words “, subject to sub-paragraph (4) below,” are omitted.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (4) is omitted.\n(5) For sub-paragraph (6) there is substituted—\n“(6) Where a consent under paragraph 3 or 6 above is to be transferred under sub-paragraph (1) above—\n(a) the person from whom and the person to whom the consent is to be transferred shall give joint notice to the Agency of the proposed transfer;\n(b) the notice may specify the date on which it is proposed that the transfer should take effect;\n(c) within twenty-one days beginning with the date of receipt of the notice duly given in accordance with sub-paragraph (6A) below, the Agency shall—\n(i) arrange to amend the consent by substituting the name of the transferee as holder of the consent; and\n(ii) serve notice on the transferor and the transferee that the amendment has been made; and\n(d) the transfer shall take effect from the later of—\n(i) the date on which the Agency amends the consent; and\n(ii) the date (if any) specified in the joint notice under paragraph (a) above.\n(6A) A joint notice under sub-paragraph (6)(a) above shall include such information as may be prescribed.\n(6B) If the person from whom the consent is to be transferred is a person in whom the consent has vested by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) or (3) above, a joint notice given under sub-paragraph (6)(a) above shall be of no effect unless the notice required by sub-paragraph (7) below has been given.\n(6C) A notice or other instrument given by or on behalf of the Agency pursuant to sub-paragraph (6) above shall not constitute an instrument signifying the consent of the Agency for the purposes of paragraph 8 above.”\n(6) In sub-paragraph (9), the words “(6) or” are omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 87 in force at 1.10.2004 by S.I. 2004/2528, art. 2(r) (with Sch. para. 68)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/37/section/87",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:55.574536+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}