{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-170",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-170.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/57",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991",
  "path": "section/170",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "170",
  "heading": "Power of entry for certain works purposes.",
  "text": "(1) Any person designated in writing for the purpose by the Agency or by the NRBW may enter any premises for any of the purposes specified in subsection (2) below.\n(2) The purposes mentioned in subsection (1) above are—\n(a) the carrying out of any survey or tests for the purpose of determining—\n(i) whether it is appropriate and practicable for the Agency or the NRBW to exercise any relevant works power; or\n(ii) how any such power should be exercised;\n(b) the exercise of any such power.\n(3) The power by virtue of subsection (1) above of a person designated by the Agency or by the NRBW to enter any premises for the purposes of carrying out any survey or tests shall include power—\n(a) to carry out experimental borings or other works for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of the sub-soil; and\n(b) to take away and analyse such samples of water or effluent or of any land or articles as the Agency or the NRBW considers necessary for the purpose of determining either of the matters mentioned in subsection (2)(a) above and has authorised that person to take away and analyse.\n(4) In this section “relevant works power” means any power conferred by any of the provisions of sections 159, 160, 162(2) and (3) and 163 above.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 170(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. 290(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 170(2)(a)(i) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 290(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 170(3) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 290(4)(a) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 170(3) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 290(4)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 170 applied (with modifications) (W.) (1.12.2011) by The Incidental Flooding and Coastal Erosion (Wales) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2829), arts. 1, 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 170 applied (with modifications) (E.) (1.12.2011) by The Incidental Flooding and Coastal Erosion (England) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2855), arts. 1(c), 6(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 170 applied (with modifications) (E.) (1.12.2011) by The Incidental Flooding and Coastal Erosion (England) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2855), arts. 1(c), 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 170 applied (with modifications) (W.) (1.12.2011) by The Incidental Flooding and Coastal Erosion (Wales) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2829), arts. 1, 6(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/170",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:46.190861+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."
}