Section 15 General duties with respect to the water industry.
England and Wales
It shall be the duty of the Agency F1and the NRBW, in exercising any of F2their powers under any enactment, to have particular regard to the duties imposed, by virtue of the provisions of Parts II to IV of the M1Water Industry Act 1991, on any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker which appears to the Agency F3or the NRBW, as the case may be, to be or to be likely to be affected by the exercise of the power in question.
It shall be the duty of each of the Ministers, in exercising—
any power which, but for any direction given by one of the Ministers, would fall to be exercised by the Agency or the NRBW,
to take into account the duty imposed on the Agency F7and the NRBW by subsection (1) above.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in s. 15(1) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 265(2)(a) (with Sch. 7)
- F2
Word in s. 15(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 265(2)(b) (with Sch. 7)
- F3
Words in s. 15(1) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 265(2)(c) (with Sch. 7)
- F4
Words in s. 15(2)(a) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120, Sch. 22 para. 130 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3
- F5
Words in s. 15(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 265(3)(a) (with Sch. 7)
- F6
Words in s. 15(2) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 265(3)(b) (with Sch. 7)
- F7
Words in s. 15(2) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 265(3)(c) (with Sch. 7)
Marginal citations
- M1
- M2