# Water Resources Act 1991, Paragraph 7

Extent: E+W

Where—
(a) in connection with any engineering or building operations to which a compulsory works order relates, a licence under Chapter II of Part II of this Act is granted, or is deemed to be granted, to the appropriate agency; and
(b) that licence is a licence to abstract water or to obstruct or impede the flow of any inland waters,
no compensation shall be payable by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 6 above in respect of any land or interest injuriously affected by the carrying out of those operations, in so far as that land or interest is injuriously affected by the abstraction of water, or the obstruction or impeding of the flow, in accordance with the provisions of the licence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/schedule/19/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/schedule-19/paragraph-7
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